Quotes from Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

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

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.