Albert Camus Quotes
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Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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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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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.
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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
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The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.
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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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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.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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Without freedom there is no art.
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Some are created to love, while the others – to live.
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The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.
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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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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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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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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.