Quote

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Albert Camus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
Author
Essayist
French Resistance Fighter
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Professor
Screenwriter
Writer
Drean
Camus
Dreams
Learn
Dream
Must
Lend
Dreaming

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
Albert Camus
Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
Albert Camus
Image
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
Albert Camus
Image
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
Albert Camus
Image
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
Albert Camus
Image
The act of love is a confession.
Albert Camus
Image
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
Albert Camus
Image
Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.
Albert Camus
Image
After awhile you could get used to anything.
Albert Camus
Image
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
Albert Camus
Image
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
Albert Camus
Image
The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.
Albert Camus
Image
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
Albert Camus
Image
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
Albert Camus
Image
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Albert Camus
Image
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
Albert Camus
Image
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
Image
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus
Image
It is immoral not to tell.
Albert Camus