Albert Camus Quotes
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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
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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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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.
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Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
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I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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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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The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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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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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.
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Men die and they are not happy.
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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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.