Albert Camus Quotes
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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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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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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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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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Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
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My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
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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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Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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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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If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
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My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus
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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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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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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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...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
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To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
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As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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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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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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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.