Albert Camus Quotes - Page 4

• A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Money, Taken

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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• We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Loss, Exercise

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• We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

  Albert Camus

  Evil, Hungry, Heal

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• When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Suffering, Too Much

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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Joy, Defeat

  "WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Fargo" by Jennifer M. Wood, www.wired.com. February 8, 2017.

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• If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Would Be, Needs

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• It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

  Albert Camus

  Next, This Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.46, Vintage

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• That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

  Albert Camus

  Love, Sacrifice, Giving

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Fall, Heart

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• People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

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• There is no shame in preferring happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Shame

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• Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Regret, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.114, Vintage

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• It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

  Albert Camus

  Fear, Arrows, Greed

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

  Albert Camus

  Creativity, New Beginnings, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• Life is the result of all your choices.

  Albert Camus

  Choices, Life Is, Results

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• A loveless world is a dead world.

  Albert Camus

  World, Loveless

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledge, Creativity, Ideas

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• Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Retirement, Mediocrity, Mediocre

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

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• I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

  Albert Camus

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Breathing Space, Long

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness And Love, Made, Perceive

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• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Deceived Us

  "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

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• I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Justice, Trying

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• When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

  Albert Camus

  No Hope

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