Albert Camus Quotes
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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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The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.
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In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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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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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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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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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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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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...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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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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To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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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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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
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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.