Albert Camus Quotes
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
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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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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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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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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.
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Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.
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Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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The act of love is a confession.
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
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I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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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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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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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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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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Having money is a way of being free of money.
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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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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.