Albert Camus Quotes
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Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
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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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Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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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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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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Liberty is the right not to lie.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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... it is true that I do not respect human life more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
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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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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
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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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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.