Albert Camus Quotes
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One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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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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Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
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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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There is only one class of men, the privileged class.
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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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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.
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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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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.
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I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.
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After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.
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There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn. If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning.
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
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Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?