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
gratitude night shadow
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
beautiful art want
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
made perceive meetings
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
morning fall heart
On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
writing civilization purpose
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
life happiness happy
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
friendship kindness compassion
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
love thinking people
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
fall punishment rocks
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
life men deeds
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
tears should
Life should be lived to the point of tears
mean law roles
As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
suffering unhappy happiness-and-love
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
life dying causes
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.