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Albert Camus Quotes about Divorce

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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

Albert Camus
Lying, Divorce, Elements
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.30, Vintage

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Albert Camus
Divorce, Men, Absurdity Of Life
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Albert Camus
Memories, Sleep, Divorce
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

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

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