Albert Camus Quotes
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Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
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The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
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Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
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There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
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This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
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In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.
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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
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I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.
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For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.
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Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.
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The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.