Albert Camus Quotes
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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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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One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
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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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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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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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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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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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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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“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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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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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
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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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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
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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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...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.
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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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For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.
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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.