Albert Camus Quotes
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Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
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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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Happiness too is inevitable.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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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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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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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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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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To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
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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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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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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.
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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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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The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
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Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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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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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 had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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Liberty is the right not to lie.
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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.