Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 November 1913
CountryFrance
punishment death-penalty murder
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
love-is vanity two
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
desire way facts
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...
sleep insomnia people
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
heart faces wonder
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
feet mind suffering
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.
solitude religion weight
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
fighting thinking mad
We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.
if-there-is-a-god religion living-my-life
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.
moon world needs
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
simple people
Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
heart echoes absurdity-of-life
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
struggle passion existentialism
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
memories joy stranger
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.