Albert Camus Quotes
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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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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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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
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Paris is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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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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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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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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Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
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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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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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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.
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But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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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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You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.