Albert Camus Quotes
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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The act of love is a confession.
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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
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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 harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
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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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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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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
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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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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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We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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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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The absurd is sin without God.
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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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It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.
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I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
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What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?