Albert Camus Quotes
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
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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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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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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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At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
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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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Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
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For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.
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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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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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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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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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Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
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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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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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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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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 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.
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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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We have art in order not to die of life.
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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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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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Give up the tyranny of female charm.