Albert Camus Quotes
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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
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Happiness too is inevitable.
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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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Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
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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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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
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From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.
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On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
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Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
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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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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.
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I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
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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.
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
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Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
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No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.