Top 100 Quotes About Camus
#1. Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.
Michael Leunig
#2. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.
Michel Houellebecq
#3. Camus said 'Love Lasts or Love Burns'. I want a Lasting Burn-just nothing requiring a series of painful treatments by a rubber-gloved Doctor
Josh Stern
#4. Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really ... I keep it out of print.
Mordecai Richler
#5. This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#6. In his reflections on rebellion, Albert Camus argues that one cannot kill unless one is prepared to die.11 But that argument does not seem to apply to soldiers in battle, where the whole point is to kill while avoiding getting killed. And yet there is a wider sense in which Camus is right. Just
Michael Walzer
#7. Life is a sum of all your choices, wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.
Howard Schultz
#8. There is in Albert Camus' literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
Aberjhani
#9. In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - ALBERT CAMUS
Kristin Hannah
#10. Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee
Sacha Hartgers
#11. Your clothing is not - how do we say? - not in harmony with the evening. Your shoes - oh, your shoes! I could write several depressing poems in the styling of Monsieur Camus about the existential problems posed by your shoes.
Christopher Bunn
#12. I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.
Sam Hamill
#13. Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
Henry Rollins
#14. These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#15. The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.
David Levithan
#16. She become moody and depressed. She started wearing black and listening to the Smiths and reading Camus in the original whatever. Her eyes became interestingly pouchy and sunken.
Lev Grossman
#17. Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
Aberjhani
#18. The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
Stokely Carmichael
#19. Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.
Patti Smith
#20. I decided that, as a stand-up, I'd position myself as a cerebral, observational comic, making references to Camus and Kierkegaard. I wasn't so much concerned with getting laughs as I was with seeing audience members turn to each other at any given moment and say, "Exactly!
Martin Short
#21. As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places - even Oran or Hades.
Robert Zaretsky
#22. I want to tell her not to speak, want to say it, but her lips are on mine again and I taste me and I taste her and I don't taste what we're saying and I don't taste Noah. I taste Camus - I owe to such evenings the idea I have of innocence.
Hannah Moskowitz
#23. I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche
Richey Edwards
#24. Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks "basically unfilmable" and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience.
Bret Easton Ellis
#26. In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain Albert Camus
Robert Zaretsky
#27. Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.
Norman Geisler
#28. As Albert Camus wrote, "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and others.
Jack Kornfield
#29. She started wearing black and listening to the Smiths and reading Camus
Lev Grossman
#30. Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. - ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL
Clive James
#31. A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert Camus - As quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86; a remark made about the Marquis de Sade.
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#32. I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some sense by the writings of Guy Debord, John Berryman, Georges Bataille, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Bukowski, Artaud, Derrick Jensen and bunch of other people.
Dominic Owen Mallary
#33. Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.
George Pattison
#34. A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
Craig Ferguson
#35. When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
Ciaran Hinds
#36. [Camus] The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.
Olivier Todd
#37. Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
Paul Theroux
#38. I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
Jessica Pare
#39. Without Melinda, you'd have no Camus."
I exhale. "I know." I know it to my fucking bones.
Hannah Moskowitz
#40. One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.
Gary Reilly
#41. The absurd does not liberate; it binds. - ALBERT CAMUS
Anonymous
#42. Albert Camus wrote, In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Martha N. Beck
#43. Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?
John Leonard
#44. Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.
Oscar Niemeyer
#45. Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.
Michel Onfray
#46. If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt)
Albert Camus
#47. Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.
So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#48. Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'
Drew Gilpin Faust
#49. One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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#50. Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
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#51. But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing.
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#52. Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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#53. We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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#54. Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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#56. Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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#58. It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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#59. What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
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#60. What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My ... my code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?"
"Comprehension.
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#61. I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.
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#62. We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.
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#63. Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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#64. What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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#65. I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.
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#66. The most pure form of the movement of rebellion is thus crowned with the heart-rending cry
of Karamazov: if all are not saved, what good is the salvation of one only?
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#67. Oh no, oh no,' she said through her tears, 'I'm so in love with love,' and, intelligent and outstanding in so many ways, perhaps just because she truly was intelligent and outstanding, she rejected the world as it was.
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#68. No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
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#69. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.
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#70. If it were sufficent to love, things would be too easy.
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#71. Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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#72. No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of ... of abstractions.
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#73. The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
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#74. I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
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#75. Indeed, one had the impression that even for the sufferers the frantic terror of the early phase had passed, and there was a sort of mournful resignation in their present attitude toward the disease.
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#76. And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death.
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#77. The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
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#78. Am I happy or unhappy? It's not a very important question.
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#79. The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman.
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#80. They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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#81. Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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#82. When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.
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#83. Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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#85. There was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.
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#86. It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
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#87. When millions of people are starving, everyone is implicated.
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#88. What does eternity matter to me? To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands - that is the supreme separation!
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#89. Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
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#90. Here is the faithful night, the cool night which I called for amid the noise of lights, drink and the tumult of desire.
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#91. At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
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#92. The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
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#93. One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
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#94. No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
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#95. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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#96. There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
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#97. Thus he became one with a life in its pure state, he rediscovered a paradise given only to the most private or the most intelligent animals. At the point where the mind denies the mind, he touched his truth and with it his extreme glory, his extreme love.
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#98. Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
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#99. 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.
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#100. The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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