Albert Camus Quotes
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
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To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
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The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.
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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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I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
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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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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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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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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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Knowing what Christ knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.
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I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.
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On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
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Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
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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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There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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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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There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.