Quote

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

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
Firsts
First
Thing
Work
Condemned
Would
Bothered
Men
Machine
Time
Machines
Hope

More quotes by 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
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
Albert Camus
Image
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
Albert Camus
Image
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
Albert Camus
Image
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
Albert Camus
Image
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
Albert Camus
Image
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
Albert Camus
Image
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
Image
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
Albert Camus
Image
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
Albert Camus
Image
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
Image
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
Albert Camus
Image
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert Camus
Image
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
Albert Camus
Image
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus
Image
We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.
Albert Camus
Image
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Albert Camus
Image
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Albert Camus
Image
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
Albert Camus