Albert Camus Quotes
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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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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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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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
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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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Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.
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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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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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Liberty is the right not to lie.
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...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
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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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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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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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Without freedom there is no art.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
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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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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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A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
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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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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.