Albert Camus Quotes
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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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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If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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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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Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
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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 most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
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Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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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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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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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 don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
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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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Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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We have art in order not to die of life.
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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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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.