Albert Camus Quotes
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
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To think is first of all to create a world or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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The artist reconstructs the world to his plan.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
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The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
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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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People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
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How hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!
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Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.
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Fate is not in man but around him.
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Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to the gods. He stole their secrets.
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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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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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Ce que, finalement, je sais de plus sûr sur la morale et les obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois.