Albert Camus Quotes
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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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Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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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.
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
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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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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.
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The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
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We have art in order not to die of life.
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
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Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
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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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Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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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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For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.