Albert Camus Quotes
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...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.
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You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
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To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
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Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
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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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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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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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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
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One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
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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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If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
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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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So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
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This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
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We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.