Albert Camus Quotes
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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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Without work all life goes rotten.
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It was in Spain that my generation learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
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To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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No ends, simply means.
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The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
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... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us.
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We are condemned to live together.
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.
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Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.