Albert Camus Quotes
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Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
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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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A loveless world is a dead world.
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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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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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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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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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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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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There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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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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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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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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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
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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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I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.