Albert Camus Quotes
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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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Men die and they are not happy.
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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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In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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Having money is a way of being free of money.
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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
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Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Those who write clearly have readers.
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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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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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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
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The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it.
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.