Albert Camus Quotes
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
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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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For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
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It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
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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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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.
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I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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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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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
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Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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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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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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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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What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?
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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.