Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. – Albert Camus
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. – Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. – Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. – Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is. – Albert Camus
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. – Albert Camus
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. – Albert Camus
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. – Albert Camus
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. – Albert Camus
It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. – Albert Camus
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. – Albert Camus
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. – Albert Camus
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. – Albert Camus
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. – Albert Camus
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. – Albert Camus