Albert Camus Quotes
-
Happiness too is inevitable.
-
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
-
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!
-
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
-
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
-
Give up the tyranny of female charm.
-
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
-
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
-
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
-
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
-
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
-
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.
-
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
-
Without freedom there is no art.
-
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
-
I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
-
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
-
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.
-
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
-
I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
-
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.