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Albert Camus Quotes
«As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!»
«To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
humiliation, humiliations, namely, provide
«In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
depth, invincible, summer, The Invincible, winter
«All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
corner, deeds, door, restaurant, revolve, revolves, revolving, ridiculous, street corner, The Restaurant, works
«We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
come into, lade, laded, laden, lading, The Weight, weight
«It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
be on, executioners, job, on the side, side, The Job
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
chord, chords, eternally, melodies, melody, notes, occasionally, perceive, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds, sounds, The Chords, vibration, vibrations
«Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
complete, fight, going away, go away, head, impossible, in this, share, took, tragedy, turn, turning away
«In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
agonies, by default, consolation, default, inexhaustible, The Agony and
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
amounts, answering, fundamental, judging, philosophical, philosophical problem, suicide