Top 25 Quotes by Albert Camus of 985 - Page 14

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Albert Camus

Accepting, Made, Incapable

Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Albert Camus

Happiness, Choices, Desire

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.118, Vintage

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

Albert Camus

Fighting, Thinking, Mad

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

Life, Success, Humor

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Albert Camus

Art, Real, Criticism

Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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.

Albert Camus

Artist, Judging, Community

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Albert Camus

Meaning Of Life, Would Be, Stills

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.14, Vintage

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

Happiness, Success, Happy

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

We're going forward, but nothing changes.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

Albert Camus

Running, Distance, Long

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

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

4th Of July, Media, Be Good

"TV news crisis needs a radical solution" by Richard Tait, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

Albert Camus

Creating, Talent, Produce

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

Albert Camus

Atheism, Want, Found

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.40, Vintage

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

Albert Camus

Rights, Duty, Uncompromising

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.105, Vintage

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Albert Camus

Forgotten, Used, Martyr

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Albert Camus

Order, Rebellion, Form

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Albert Camus

Judging, Judgment, Breathe

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

Albert Camus

Girl, Beach, Morning

My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

Albert Camus

Gratitude, Men, Law

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

Albert Camus

World, Impossible, Sisyphus

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.51, Vintage