Albert Camus Quotes

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy just to be normal.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar spirit.

El conquistador no busca la unidad, sino la totalidad, lo que significa el aplastamiento de las diferencias

We thought that happiness is the greatest of conquests, the one we achieve against the destiny imposed on us. Not even in defeat did that longing abandon us.

There is one thing that is always desired and is sometimes obtained: human tenderness.

Even, in some cases, to continue, simply to continue, becomes superhuman.

Brutal physical desire is easy. But desire at the same time as tenderness takes time. It is necessary to traverse the entire region of love before finding the flame of desire.

The one who kills or tortures only knows a shadow in their victory: they cannot feel innocent. Therefore, they need to create guilt in the victim.

I thought that this world without love is a dead world, and that there comes a moment when one grows tired of the prison, work, and courage, and demands nothing more than the face of a being and the spell of tenderness in the heart.

Because friendship is the science of free men. And there is no freedom without intelligence and mutual understanding.

He was aware of how sterile a life without illusions is. There is no peace without hope.