Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
Albert Camus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Within
Happiness
Desire
Concerted
Lucid
Implied
Choice
Choices
More quotes by Albert Camus
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
Albert Camus
There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye
Albert Camus
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
Albert Camus
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
Albert Camus
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
Albert Camus
How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert Camus
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.
Albert Camus
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
Albert Camus
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus
There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
Albert Camus
Liberty is dangerous.
Albert Camus
But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.
Albert Camus
True artists scorn nothing.
Albert Camus
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice hideous, witless justice.
Albert Camus
what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger
Albert Camus
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert Camus