Quote

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

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
Less
Times
Exceptional
Three
Boredom
True
Vanity
Two
Rest
Time
Century
Love
Courses
Course

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games one must first answer.
Albert Camus
Image
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
Albert Camus
Image
One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
Albert Camus
Image
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
Albert Camus
Image
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus
Image
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
Albert Camus
Image
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
Image
We all have a weakness for beauty.
Albert Camus
Image
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
Albert Camus
Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
Albert Camus
Image
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
Albert Camus
Image
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus
Image
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
Albert Camus
Image
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
Albert Camus
Image
We're going forward, but nothing changes.
Albert Camus
Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
Albert Camus
Image
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
Albert Camus
Image
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Albert Camus
Image
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
Albert Camus
Image
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
Albert Camus