Quote

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

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
Much
Stubborn
Hope
Human
Humans
Heart

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
Albert Camus
Image
I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.
Albert Camus
Image
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Albert Camus
Image
We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.
Albert Camus
Image
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert Camus
Image
All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
Albert Camus
Image
Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
Albert Camus
Image
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
Albert Camus
Image
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
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
I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.
Albert Camus
Image
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
Albert Camus
Image
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
Albert Camus
Image
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Albert Camus
Image
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
Albert Camus
Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
Albert Camus
Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
Albert Camus
Image
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland
Albert Camus
Image
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
Albert Camus
Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
Albert Camus