Albert Camus Quotes
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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 act of love is a confession.
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Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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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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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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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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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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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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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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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
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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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People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
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The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.
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Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.
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Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
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We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.