Albert Camus Quotes
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Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
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A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
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In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
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Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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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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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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Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.
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The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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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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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
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We have art in order not to die of life.