Albert Camus Quotes
-
Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
-
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.
-
Without freedom there is no art.
-
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
-
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
-
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Liberty is the right not to lie.
-
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
-
...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'.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Give up the tyranny of female charm.
-
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
-
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.
-
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
-
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
-
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.
-
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
-
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.