Quote

Life should be lived to the point of tears

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
Point
Life
Lived
Tears

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Albert Camus
Image
Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
Albert Camus
Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus
Image
We're all special cases.
Albert Camus
Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.
Albert Camus
Image
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
Albert Camus
Image
Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called the act of love, or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
Albert Camus
Image
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
Albert Camus
Image
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
Albert Camus
Image
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. Yes, he replied. The path of sympathy.
Albert Camus
Image
Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
Albert Camus
Image
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Albert Camus
Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus
Image
On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
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
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
Albert Camus
Image
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
Albert Camus
Image
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
Image
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
Albert Camus