Albert Camus Quotes about Giving

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Giving, Unloved, Misfortunes

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

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus

Self, Giving, Solitude

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Albert Camus

Giving, Joy, Defeat

"WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Fargo" by Jennifer M. Wood, www.wired.com. February 8, 2017.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Albert Camus

Love, Sacrifice, Giving

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

Albert Camus

Eye, People, Giving

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Albert Camus

Men, Giving, Tragedy

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

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Albert Camus

Art, Giving, Art Is

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

Albert Camus

Sacrifice, Giving, Return

When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.

Albert Camus

People, Giving, Miracle

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

Albert Camus

Ideas, People, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus

Heart, Giving, Forever

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Albert Camus

Fate, Giving, Shapes

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

Albert Camus

Mistake, Blessing, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.131, Vintage

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Albert Camus

Nature, Law, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.36, Vintage

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Albert Camus

Art, Sea, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

Albert Camus

Cutting, Animal, Giving

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Albert Camus

Life, Order, Giving

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

Albert Camus

Giving, Choices, Bitterness

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

Albert Camus

Giving Up, Giving, Justice

"Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

Albert Camus

Attitude, Fighting, Giving

Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

Suffering gives us no special rights.

Albert Camus

Rights, Giving, Suffering

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

Albert Camus

Men, Giving, Principles

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

Albert Camus

Views, Ideas, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.42, Vintage

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Albert Camus

Destiny, Agony, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage