An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Notebooks. |
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus
Notebooks. |
Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without
ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within
them don’t go in for politics.
Albert Camus
Notebooks. |
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for
a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch
out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
Notebooks. |
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to
find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and
die to find out there is.
Albert Camus |
Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
As quoted in Visions from Earth by James
R. Miller. |
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind
me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus |
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so
much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and
in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus |
We only know of one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus |
A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated
and read the papers.
Albert Camus
The Fall. |
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without
having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
The Fall. |
We are all special cases. We all want to appeal against something!
Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it
means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
Albert Camus
The Fall. |
We seldom confide in those who are better than ourselves.
Albert Camus
The Fall. |
I'll tell you a great big secret, mon cher. Don't wait for
the last judgement. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
The Fall. |
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
The Rebel. |
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
The Rebel. |
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the
power of the state.
Albert Camus
The Rebel. |
Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or
a heretic.
Albert Camus
The Rebel. |
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds
hope for the human condition is a fool.
Albert Camus |
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that
is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts
to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus. |
I see many people die because they judge that life is not
worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the
ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what
is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for
dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the
most urgent of questions.
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus. |
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any
man in the face.
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus. |
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus. |
There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus. |
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill
a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus. |
Can one be a saint without God? That's the problem, in fact
the only problem, I'm up against today.
Albert Camus
The Plague. |
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.
Albert Camus
Resistence, Rebellion and Death. |
What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man
I owe to sport.
Albert Camus
Quoted in Albert Camus: A Biography by
Herbert R. Lottman. |
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there
lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
L'été (Summer), Return to
Tipasa. |
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.
Albert Camus
The Stranger. |
As if that blind rage has washed me clean, rid me of hope;
for the first time, I that night alive with signs and stars,
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding
it so much life myself - so like a brother, really - I felt
that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything
to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to
wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my
execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
The Stranger
The Stranger. |
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