Albert Camus Quotes
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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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Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
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The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
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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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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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Art does not tolerate reason.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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We writers must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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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.
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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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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
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You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
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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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All I know of morality I learned from football.
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The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.