Albert Camus Quotes
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
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Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
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If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. But it does lead to the suspicion that one aspect of their thought, or of their logic, can lead to these appalling conclusions.
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There is only one class of men, the privileged class.
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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
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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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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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The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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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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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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To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.
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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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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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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.