Albert Camus Quotes
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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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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There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
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Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
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Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
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A loveless world is a dead world.
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No ends, simply means.
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There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
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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 is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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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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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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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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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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We all have a weakness for beauty.
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
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What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
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I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.
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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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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.