Albert Camus Quotes
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
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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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So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
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Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
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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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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.
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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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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
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Liberty is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
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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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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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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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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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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
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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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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.