Cuando se ha hecho la guerra apenas sabe ya nadie lo que es un muerto. Y además un hombre muerto solamente tiene peso cuando lo ha visto uno muerto; cien millones de cadáveres, sembrados a través de la historia, no son más que humo en la imaginación.


Albert Camus

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Lo bueno de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber literalmente hasta caerte muerto, como lo hacen los ...
CATE TIERNAN
De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha
acontecido,...
ARISTOTLE
El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Pero la guerra… Son los lápices rojos, las reglas y los compases, los mapas…. Motoristas, órde...
ANGEL MARIA DE LERA
Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi...
HERMANN HESSE
Hace poco encontraron en el bosque un caballo salvaje. Estaba muerto. En otro lugar, una liebre. No ...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
Que la vida del hombre es solamente un sueño ya se le había ocurrido a bastantes, y también a mi ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
—Si alguna mujé blanca lee algún día mi historia, sólo quiero que recuerde esto: que dar las g...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Nadie sabe lo que sucede en la vida de nadie, salvo en la propia. Y cuando le arruinas una parte de ...
JAY ASHER
Los amantes y los locos tienen desbocado el seso, y son dados a forjar fantasías que abarcan más d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Y la moraleja de esta historia es que no recuerdas lo que pasó. Lo que recuerdas se convierte en lo...
JOHN GREEN
Cosas detestables

Cuando uno tiene prisa por salir, llega alguien de visita y se queda ha...
SEI SHōNAGON
la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa...
OCTAVIO PAZ
Resulta difícil hablar de moral; lo que ha sucedido es que hemos inventado unos principios morales ...
T.H. WHITE
La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ...
PíO BAROJA
El corazón que ha encerrado se marchita lentamente y le crece pelo, lo que simboliza su propio desc...
J.K. ROWLING
Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pr...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro...
JULIO CORTáZAR
Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado...
HERMANN HESSE
Era ese llanto que sobreviene cuando uno se siente opacamente desgraciado. Cuando alguien se siente ...
MARIO BENEDETTI
[Se había enamorado] de la misma manera que aparecen las estrellas en el cielo: apenas uno nota un ...
ANAGABY ARRIETA
—No, la próxima vez que te bese durará un largo, largo tiempo. Y cuando lo hayamos hecho compren...
SIMONE ELKELES
Cuando nos morimos, esas son las historias que siguen en nuestro labios. Las historias que solamente...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Cuando pensaba en él muriendo, que admito que no ha sido muchas veces, siempre pensaba en lo que di...
JOHN GREEN
Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
¡Ay, ese niño, cuánto lo quería! ¡Se parecía muchísimo a mi pobre Henry! ¡Pero había decidi...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
No fue un beso muy largo, y desde luego no fue uno de esos de película, pero fue maravilloso a su m...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
La high society de aquí me cae muy gorda y siento un poco de rabia contra todos estos ricachones, p...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE
Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
...cuando alguien muere, pensamos que ya se ha hecho tarde para cualquier cosa, para todo —más a�...
JAVIER MARíAS
siguió evocando hasta el amanecer las excelencias del marido, sin reprocharle otra deslealtad que l...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
El amor desesperado consiste en inventarse un personaje, exigir a la persona amada que lo represente...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria...
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE
Entro Kriztina y aquel salon oscuro se inundo de luz. No solamente irradiaba juventud, no. Irradiaba...
SáNDOR MáRAI
A veces oigo una música... O una canción... Una voz de mujer... Y allí encuentro lo que he sentid...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
Creo que ese momento terminó. De veras lo creo. No obstante a veces, en la oscuridad, pienso que es...
STEPHEN KING
Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n...
CONFUCIUS
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
Todo su cuerpo se estremeció, de la forma en que siempre lo hacía cuando la besaba. Nunca se aburr...
CASSANDRA CLARE
¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e...
MARC LEVY
Nada es más valioso que la risa. Se requiere de fuerza para reír y abandonarse a uno, para ser lig...
FRIDA KAHLO
Yo quería a mi papá con un amor que nunca volví a sentir hasta que nacieron mis hijos. Cuando los...
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE
En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz...
GEORGE ORWELL
La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla de...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
La mayoría de nosotros encuentra muy difícil desear el cielo, salvo si esto significa volver a enc...
C.S. LEWIS
Se puede vivir sin leer, es cierto: pero también se puede vivir sin amar: el argumento hace aguas c...
RICARDO MENéNDEZ SALMóN
La verdad no es realmente más extraña que la ficción, digan lo que digan. La mayoria de la veces ...
STEPHEN KING
La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que...
MARIO BENEDETTI
Conozco las estrellas por memorias, los ejércitos de la noche, y hay en la delantera los que nos tr...
AESCHYLUS
Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas. Pecado mío, alma mía. Lo-li-ta: la punta de la len...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
-Todo lo que he hecho en este año de la expiación ha terminado por dejar atrás sólo cenizas. As�...
PATRICK GLEASON
La finalidad de la vida no es prosperar sino transformarse. Cuando uno se lanza a lo desconocido se ...
ELENA PONIATOWSKA
La tecnología etérea y digital que reemplazó a la imprenta ha alcanzado la mayoria de edad en un ...
JARON LANIER
William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Di...
MICHEL FABER
Le rodeó la cintura con un brazo, con un nudo en la garganta.
—¿De veras?
—De veras....
NALINI SINGH
Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y están disgustados, no les diré que la gente se muere de hambr...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
¿Ha estado alguna vez enamorado? Horrible, ¿no? Te hace tan vulnerable. Te abre el pecho y el cora...
NEIL GAIMAN
Estoy en este estacionamiento pensando que nunca he estado tan lejos de casa, y aquí esta la chica ...
JOHN GREEN
Como ve, todos tenemos en nuestro interior los elementos necesarios para producir fósforo. Es más,...
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Hay una realidad que demuestra la verdad de un hecho. Porque nuestra memoria y nuestros sentidos son...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
…debes darte cuenta de que nos hemos pasado la vida desde pequeños respondiendo a la pregunta ‘...
ALBERT ESPINOSA
Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor. Hablaban hasta ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Puede perder cosas materiales pero nunca podrá perder su maestría, lo que se ha aprendido, la pers...
JACK CANFIELD
Qué feo eso de que le digan a uno la verdad, sobre todo si se trata de una de esas verdades que uno...
MARIO BENEDETTI
Una mujer merece más que un príncipe azul, más que un rey colmado de oro, más que un poderoso em...
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA
El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar...
KATIE MCGARRY
Durante toda mi vida he entendido el amor como una especie de esclavitud consentida. Pero esto no es...
PAULO COELHO
Dolor y muerte. Dos palabras que podrían resumir lo que ocurrió en Hollow Hallows a finales de su ...
CARLOS J. EGUREN
Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradu...
AUDREY DRY
Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante; decía que todos nacemos con una caja de fósforos ade...
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un...
JAY ASHER
Más importante que la buena vida es lo que se pueda decir de ella; es decir, saber expresarla. No h...
MEREDITH HAAF
La mayoría de las personas no tienen tantos recelos ante lo sobrenatural como les gusta creer a los...
STEPHEN KING
Gran parte de una desgracia cualquiera consiste, por así decirlo, en la sombra de la desgracia, en ...
C.S. LEWIS
Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE
Ninguna definición compleja de lo que es o podrá ser la fotografía atenuará jamás el placer dep...
SUSAN SONTAG
Así pues, tanto las sociedades como los grupos humanos más pequeños pueden tomar decisiones catas...
JARED DIAMOND
RECUERDE LA FLOR DE LOTO


Las grandes personas siempre se burlaban de los que se sie...
SUZY KASSEM
Si os he referido estos detalles acerca del asteroide B 612 y si os he confiado su número es por la...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
No puedo soportar más en silencio. Debo hablar con usted por cualquier medio a mi alcance. Me desga...
JANE AUSTEN
¿Encontraré una mujer que, fiel y benévola, comparta mi suerte brillante y generosa, cuando ahora...
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH
El mundo no se divide en gente buena y mala; todos tenemos luz y oscuridad dentro de nosotros, lo qu...
J.K. ROWLING
Lo que pasó es lo de menos. Es una novela, y lo que ocurre en ellas da lo mismo y se olvida, una ve...
JAVIER MARíAS
Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más ...
PABLO NERUDA
Escribir es una necesidad infantil de construirme un mundo. Es evadir con picardía la realidad y to...
RICARDO ARJONA
Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Pero el tiempo pasa, y dura. Y hay un momento en que todo se estanca. Los días dejan de contarse, l...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE
Es bueno que las personas signifiquen algo para ti, que las eches de menos cuando no están. Yo no e...
JOHN GREEN
Cuando me besas, Gwendolyn Shepherd, es como si perdiera el contacto con el suelo. No tengo ni idea ...
KERSTIN GIER
La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA''
¡Lo fuerte es que se trataba de lugares preciosos! De una hermosura...Y esa misma belleza era la qu...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
Cuando vas por las calles
nadie te reconoce.
Nadie ve la corona de cristal, nadie mira
PABLO NERUDA
El hombre no domina la naturaleza, sino que, fundándose sobre el conocimiento de unas cuantas leyes...
ERICH FROMM
La muerte tiene mucho más en común con el amor de lo que imagináis.
RICK RIORDAN
Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla...
SáNDOR MáRAI

More Albert Camus

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
ALBERT CAMUS
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
ALBERT CAMUS
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUS
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
ALBERT CAMUS
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUS
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither t...
ALBERT CAMUS
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a ...
ALBERT CAMUS
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
ALBERT CAMUS
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
ALBERT CAMUS
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as i...
ALBERT CAMUS
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every o...
ALBERT CAMUS
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
ALBERT CAMUS
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
ALBERT CAMUS
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
ALBERT CAMUS
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
ALBERT CAMUS
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
ALBERT CAMUS
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of phil...
ALBERT CAMUS
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into ...
ALBERT CAMUS
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...
ALBERT CAMUS
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries...
ALBERT CAMUS
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them togethe...
ALBERT CAMUS
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws...
ALBERT CAMUS
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
ALBERT CAMUS
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
ALBERT CAMUS
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
ALBERT CAMUS
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
ALBERT CAMUS
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most ...
ALBERT CAMUS
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
ALBERT CAMUS
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
ALBERT CAMUS
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
ALBERT CAMUS
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
ALBERT CAMUS
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to ...
ALBERT CAMUS
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
ALBERT CAMUS
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ALBERT CAMUS
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
ALBERT CAMUS
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the ot...
ALBERT CAMUS
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Excep...
ALBERT CAMUS
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
ALBERT CAMUS
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two ...
ALBERT CAMUS
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and ...
ALBERT CAMUS
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
ALBERT CAMUS
We are all special cases.
ALBERT CAMUS
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform ...
ALBERT CAMUS
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...
ALBERT CAMUS
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hopi...
ALBERT CAMUS
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their...
ALBERT CAMUS
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
ALBERT CAMUS
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
ALBERT CAMUS
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
ALBERT CAMUS
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
ALBERT CAMUS
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
ALBERT CAMUS
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in ...
ALBERT CAMUS
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
ALBERT CAMUS
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyph...
ALBERT CAMUS
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the comm...
ALBERT CAMUS
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. ...
ALBERT CAMUS
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
ALBERT CAMUS
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
ALBERT CAMUS
Integrity has no need of rules.
ALBERT CAMUS
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
ALBERT CAMUS
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
ALBERT CAMUS
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
ALBERT CAMUS
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...
ALBERT CAMUS
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...
ALBERT CAMUS
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say th...
ALBERT CAMUS
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
ALBERT CAMUS
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must underg...
ALBERT CAMUS
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
ALBERT CAMUS
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I lik...
ALBERT CAMUS
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
ALBERT CAMUS
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never liv...
ALBERT CAMUS
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
ALBERT CAMUS
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
W...
ALBERT CAMUS
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep
ALBERT CAMUS
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly ...
ALBERT CAMUS
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't ev...
ALBERT CAMUS
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi...
ALBERT CAMUS
Personne n'est capable réellement de penser à personne, fût-ce dans le pire des malheurs. Car pen...
ALBERT CAMUS
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man c...
ALBERT CAMUS
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
ALBERT CAMUS
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
ALBERT CAMUS
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
ALBERT CAMUS
Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Musi...
ALBERT CAMUS
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...
ALBERT CAMUS
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feelin...
ALBERT CAMUS
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who hav...
ALBERT CAMUS
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
ALBERT CAMUS
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man c...
ALBERT CAMUS
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
ALBERT CAMUS
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
ALBERT CAMUS
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
ALBERT CAMUS
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it,...
ALBERT CAMUS
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own li...
ALBERT CAMUS
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
ALBERT CAMUS
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, a...
ALBERT CAMUS
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside ...
ALBERT CAMUS
My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
ALBERT CAMUS
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r...
ALBERT CAMUS
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the out...
ALBERT CAMUS
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that w...
ALBERT CAMUS
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
ALBERT CAMUS
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
ALBERT CAMUS
Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS
Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shal...
ALBERT CAMUS
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ALBERT CAMUS
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just a...
ALBERT CAMUS
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
ALBERT CAMUS
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to b...
ALBERT CAMUS
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death i...
ALBERT CAMUS
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by you...
ALBERT CAMUS
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in...
ALBERT CAMUS
You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
ALBERT CAMUS
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
ALBERT CAMUS
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
ALBERT CAMUS
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the r...
ALBERT CAMUS
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can onl...
ALBERT CAMUS
If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable g...
ALBERT CAMUS
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of phil...
ALBERT CAMUS
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do...
ALBERT CAMUS
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus h...
ALBERT CAMUS
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations whi...
ALBERT CAMUS
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dread...
ALBERT CAMUS
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
ALBERT CAMUS
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value whi...
ALBERT CAMUS
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
ALBERT CAMUS
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not...
ALBERT CAMUS
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
ALBERT CAMUS
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely ev...
ALBERT CAMUS
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the ...
ALBERT CAMUS
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
ALBERT CAMUS
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. Wh...
ALBERT CAMUS
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unle...
ALBERT CAMUS
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
ALBERT CAMUS
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the va...
ALBERT CAMUS
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
ALBERT CAMUS
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nosta...
ALBERT CAMUS
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alon...
ALBERT CAMUS
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an ac...
ALBERT CAMUS
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...
ALBERT CAMUS
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not t...
ALBERT CAMUS
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...
ALBERT CAMUS
As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab...
ALBERT CAMUS
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
ALBERT CAMUS
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
ALBERT CAMUS
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no ar...
ALBERT CAMUS
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
ALBERT CAMUS
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
ALBERT CAMUS
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expec...
ALBERT CAMUS
Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
ALBERT CAMUS
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
ALBERT CAMUS
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...
ALBERT CAMUS
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calcula...
ALBERT CAMUS
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, he...
ALBERT CAMUS
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...
ALBERT CAMUS
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUS
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balanc...
ALBERT CAMUS
Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
ALBERT CAMUS
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinai...
ALBERT CAMUS
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
ALBERT CAMUS
On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishe...
ALBERT CAMUS
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
ALBERT CAMUS
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
ALBERT CAMUS
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; he...
ALBERT CAMUS
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life ...
ALBERT CAMUS
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
ALBERT CAMUS
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS
What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS
Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
ALBERT CAMUS