Albert Camus Quotes
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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.
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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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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Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
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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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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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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 only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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You know, women do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
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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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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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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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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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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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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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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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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.