Albert Camus Quotes
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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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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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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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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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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
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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 absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.
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Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.
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I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
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For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
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Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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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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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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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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“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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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.