Albert Camus Quotes
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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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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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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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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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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Integrity has no need of rules.
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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 get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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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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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
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For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
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At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
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The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
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Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.
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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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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.