Albert Camus Quotes

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

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

Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Live to the point of tears.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

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.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.