Albert Camus Quotes
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This is the century of fear.
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When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
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The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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We are condemned to live together.
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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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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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We all have a weakness for beauty.
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I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
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There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
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I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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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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The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
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Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.
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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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There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.