Albert Camus Quotes
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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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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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
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Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
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The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
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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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How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
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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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There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
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Paris is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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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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How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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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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People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.
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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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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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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.