Albert Camus Quotes
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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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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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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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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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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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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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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
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Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!
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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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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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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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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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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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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
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I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.