Albert Camus Quotes
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What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
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Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
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The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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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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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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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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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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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
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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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A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
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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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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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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
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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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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
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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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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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When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.