Albert Camus Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”

“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”

“After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.”

“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

“There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.”

“To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?”

“Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.”

“In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.”

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”