Quote

... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

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
Types
Happiness
Magnificent
Happy
Limit
Two
Reached
Thought
Chosen
Sterile
Time
Limits
Murderers
Type
Murderer
Beyond
Distress

More quotes by 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
Fate is not in man but around him
Albert Camus
Image
Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.
Albert Camus
Image
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
Albert Camus
Image
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Albert Camus
Image
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus
Image
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
Albert Camus
Image
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus
Image
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Albert Camus
Image
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
Albert Camus
Image
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
Image
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
Image
No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
Albert Camus
Image
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
Albert Camus
Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
Albert Camus
Image
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert Camus
Image
I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.
Albert Camus
Image
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
Albert Camus