Quote

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

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
Suffering
Pain
Understand
Suffer
Cannot
Sorrow
Make
Choice
Trouble
Share
Choices

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.
Albert Camus
Image
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday I can't be sure.
Albert Camus
Image
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
Albert Camus
Image
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
Albert Camus
Image
In order to exist, man must rebel.
Albert Camus
Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
Albert Camus
Image
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
Albert Camus
Image
We have art in order not to die of life.
Albert Camus
Image
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus
Image
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
Albert Camus
Image
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
Albert Camus
Image
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. (The Plague)
Albert Camus
Image
Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared it is born of their confrontation.
Albert Camus
Image
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
Image
Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
Image
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
Albert Camus
Image
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
Albert Camus
Image
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus