Albert Camus Quotes
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I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
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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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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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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.
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Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
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We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
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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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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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Morality, when formal, devours.
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Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
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You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
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To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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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.
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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.