Albert Camus, طاعون Quotes

We are condemned to live together.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

Liberty is dangerous.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

True artists scorn nothing.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

The absurd is sin without God.

I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

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.