Camus Quotes

Camus Quote of the day

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.

My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way

A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

I rebel

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

So we are steaming along without any landmark

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!

To create is to live twice.

They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

որևէ քաղաք ճանաչելու ամենաճիշտ ձևերից մեկն էլ իմանալն է, թե ինչպե՞ս են այնտեղ աշխատում, ինչպե՞ս են սիրում, և ինչպե՞ս են մեռնում:

It's only artists who know how to use their eyes

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

[A writer] cannot serve today those who make history

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.