Albert Camus Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“There is no love of life without despair of life.”

“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”

“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.”

“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”

“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.”

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”

“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”

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

“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.”