Albert Camus Quotes
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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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In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
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You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
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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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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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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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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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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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When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
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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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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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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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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Paris is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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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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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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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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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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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.