Albert Camus Quotes
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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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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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A loveless world is a dead world.
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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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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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
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As for those whose role it is to love us – I mean, relatives and in-laws – It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
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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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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
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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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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
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Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
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The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.
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He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.