Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. Albert Camus wellsfeltmean Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night. Albert Camus bad-nightsuicidenight Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. Albert Camus violence 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 seagivingart 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 tragedygivingmen It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. Albert Camus happiness-and-loveunhappysuffering Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Albert Camus choicesdesirehappiness Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema. Albert Camus eczemadishonestyfancy Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion. Albert Camus historicalevilhistory He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Albert Camus despairhopelife ... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it. Albert Camus marriagefreedombelieve Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. Albert Camus skillseyepeople The innocent is the person who explains nothing Albert Camus innocentinnocencelife The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus tyrantswarpeace We have art in order not to die of life. Albert Camus diesorderart 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 madfightingthinking Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. Albert Camus intelligentdoelove The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art Albert Camus choicesideasart An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. Albert Camus bondageachievementinspiration Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress. Albert Camus shadowrootsmemories
