Albert Camus Quotes
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If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
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Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
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I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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.
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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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.
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Men die and they are not happy.
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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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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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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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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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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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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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.