Albert Camus Quotes
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Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
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There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
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I rebel - therefore we exist.
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
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But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
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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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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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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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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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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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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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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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This is the century of fear.
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.