Albert Camus Quotes
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Having money is a way of being free of money.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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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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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
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Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.
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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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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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He's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
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We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.