Albert Camus Quotes
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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.
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Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.
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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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The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
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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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The act of love is a confession.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
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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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Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
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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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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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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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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 absurd is sin without God.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.
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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
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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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No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.