Albert Camus Quotes
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Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
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The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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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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Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
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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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God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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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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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
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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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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.