Albert Camus Quotes
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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We have art in order not to die of life.
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The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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Some are created to love, while the others – to live.
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The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.
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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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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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“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”
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Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
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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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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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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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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.
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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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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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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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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.