Camus’ classic quotations

1. We are neither capable of doing evil nor doing good.

2. In life, you should never act or cheat.

3. Life is short, and wasting time is a crime.

4. If you don’t despair of life, you won’t love life.

5. Misfortunes and blessings depend on each other. There are no completely unfortunate people in the world.

6. There is no fate that cannot be overcome with contempt.

7. I was justified before, I am justified now, and I will always be justified in the future.

8. Having said that, people cannot always be so rational.

9. Not being loved is just unlucky, but not being able to love is misfortune.

10. The important thing is not to be cured, but to live with the pain.

11. We have heard that there is only one responsibility, and that is love.

12. True generosity towards the future is to dedicate everything to the present.

13. It is possible for a person to no longer feel pain after being in pain for a long time.

14. Despite this, there is always a sense of guilt in life.

15. There is only one truly serious philosophical question, and that is suicide.

16. Without true knowledge and insight, there will be no true kindness and noble love.

17. In the light, the world is always our first and last love.

18. In the middle of winter, I finally realized that summer will always be in my heart.

19. As long as I can embrace the world, it doesn’t matter if the hug is awkward.

20. The so-called charm is getting a positive answer without asking a clear question.

21. To learn life and death, and to become a human being, you must refuse to become a god.

22. All great actions and thoughts have a humble beginning.

23. I have no time to become interested in things that don’t interest me anymore.

24. Sometimes the things we think we are sure of are actually not so.

25. All healthy people have at one point or another wished for the death of their loved ones.

26. We used to be innocent without knowing it, but now we are guilty without voluntarily.

27. In the middle of winter, I finally knew that there was an invincible summer in me.

28. But in his opinion, its real disease is aging, and aging cannot be cured.

29. Real life appears within the tear. Life is tearing itself.

30. The difficult thing is to never forget, so this word represents the power of logic.

31. People always have exaggerated impressions of things they don’t understand.

32. Judging whether life is worth experiencing is itself answering the basic question of philosophy.

33. When the longing for happiness is too eager, pain will arise deep in the human heart.

34. Every sane person has more or less wished for the death of his loved ones.

35. In the morning of the world, the earth should also emerge from a similar light.

36. A person will always have some exaggerated and distorted ideas about things he does not understand.

37. Sad people have two reasons for being sad, either they have no knowledge or they have hope.

38. Many things are not as bad as you think. After all, there is still sunshine to warm our bones.

39. All healthy people, both physically and mentally, have more or less imagined and expected the death of their loved ones.

40. This is the real misfortune. Being accustomed to a desperate situation is worse than the desperate situation itself.

41. Possessiveness is just another form of requiring continuance. It is the impotent fervor of love.

42. When I get tired of listening to someone and want to get rid of him, I pretend to agree happily.

43. Its silence and roar are as effective as thunder. It was the silence of the primeval forest, even the mouth was silent.

44. Imagination focuses too much on memories. When the longing for happiness is too eager, the pain will slowly rise deep in the human heart.

45. People can never change their lives. All kinds of lives are the same, but my life here does not bore me.

46. I am not staying in a dead tree trunk. There are many people in the world who are more unfortunate than me. In the end, people will get used to everything.

47. Ideology has penetrated into the legal field, determining the attitude and stance of judicial personnel, thereby controlling the operation of the legal machine.

48. Death is something we cannot get rid of. Everyone has his own death. After all, the sun still warms our bodies and bones.

49. Evil in the world is almost always caused by ignorance. If there is a lack of understanding, good intentions can cause as much harm as malice.

50. The smallest collision can shake the foundation of our existence. Even a waterfall of light can see eternity from it.

51. To understand a city, the most convenient way is to ask how people there work, how they love each other, and how they die.

52. Ordinary people try every means to strive for immortality, but eternity refuses to give it the right to anything short-lived, all dreaming and hoping to last forever.

53. There is no unique truth, only various truths. From the evening breeze to my hands, there is truth in everything. Consciousness pays attention to it and thus magnifies it.

54. Night after night, I wait for the dawn wholeheartedly. I never like to be caught off guard. I like to be prepared for whatever happens.

55. Facing such a sky and the light and heat falling from the sky, I feel that there is no legitimate reason to feel despair or joy.

56. We always look down on ourselves. While poor, sick and alone, we realize our immortality. We always have to be pushed to the point of desperation.

57. As the night approaches, the whistle blows, announcing that the world will begin a new journey, and the world they are going to will never have anything to do with me.

58. What can remind me of this life is the afterlife I imagined; I know there is no place for me in this world, but who are you to judge my soul.

59. The reason why a person embarks on a journey is to cultivate himself. If the so-called cultivation is to exercise our innermost feelings about eternity.

60. As long as a person learns to remember, he will never be lonely again. Even if you only live in the world for one day, you can live alone in a prison for a hundred years with your memories without any difficulty.

61. The newspapers chattered endlessly about the rat incident, but said nothing about the dead people. The reason is that rats die in the streets while people die in their own rooms.

62. I escaped from the European night and the cold winter of the world; however, this summer city also lost its laughter and only gave me a bulging and shiny back.

63. If you continue to search for what happiness is made of, you will never find happiness. If you keep looking for the meaning of life, you will never live it.

64. When people are lost, being full of energy is a waste of their time. Those who want to turn their backs on the world, let them be. I don't complain because I watched me being born.

65. Don’t walk behind me, because I may not lead the way; don’t walk in front of me, because I may not follow; please walk beside me and be my friend.

66. Thought is to learn to observe and pay attention again, to guide oneself, and to turn every idea and every image into a unique territory in Proust's way.

67. Beauty will never allow anything divine or rational to go to extremes, because it never vetoes anything. It takes into account all things and balances darkness and light.

68. If the terms of the problem are reversed a priori, just like the question of whether a person commits suicide or not, there are only two philosophical results: yes or no, which seems too simple.

69. What happened next, according to Grand, was very ordinary, just like ordinary people: they got married and were still a little in love. Both of them worked, but when they got busy at work, the love faded away.

70. People are really indifferent. However, in reality, I am far different from them. Everyone has nothing to do with themselves and lives in their own cage. Where is the happiness?

71. This world without love is really like the world of the dead. One day people will be tired of prison, work and courage, and find their pleasant faces and tender hearts.

72. Nothing in the world is worth giving up what you love for it. However, for some unknown reason, just like you, I also gave up what I loved.

73. What exactly is an absurd man? He is someone who neither does anything for eternity nor denies eternity. He was not ignorant of nostalgia, but he liked his courage and reasoning more than nostalgia.

74. People can ask for death. Because once you see through life, nothing else matters. A man experiences and suffers all kinds of misfortunes, he bears them and is content with his fate.

75. In Western culture, patricide is always entangled with adulthood. Adulthood is about becoming like your father, and the most straightforward way to become like your father is to kill your father. Camus's famous quotes

Camus's famous quotes

1. How many people commit crimes just because they can't stand evil!

2. The world is full of lies and servility, and lonely weeds grow everywhere. No matter what weaknesses each of us may have, the nobility of the writer's profession is always rooted in two difficult interventions: rejecting lies and resisting persecution.

3. All great deeds and great ideas have absurd beginnings.

4. Freedom should be an opportunity to make yourself better.

5. The truth gains vitality in people and is displayed.

6. Don’t walk behind me, because I may not lead the way; don’t walk in front of me, because I may not follow; please walk beside me and be my friend.

7. Usually, people who choose to devote themselves to art have considered themselves unique. However, he will soon discover that his art and his uniqueness are often rooted in similarities with everyone else.

8. I have never given up pursuing light, feeling the happiness of existence, and yearning for the free life of my youth. Although this kind of greed led me to make many mistakes, it also helped me better understand my profession and supported me to stand on the side of those who are silent without hesitation. For them, to survive in this world, they can only rely on a little happiness, freedom but short memories. A collection of Camus's famous sayings

1. The emptiness that always exists deep in our souls is indeed a feeling of exile. A clear and distinct emotion, an anxious arrow of memory, a wild delusion, either about turning back time or, conversely, about time flying by.

2. It is precisely because life is meaningless that it is worth living.

3. From ancient times to the present, there have always been some people who have been migrating back and forth endlessly in this vast, arid land that has been squeezed to the bone. Having nothing but no one to rely on, poor and free, they are the masters of a strange kingdom.

4. I know this is wrong and cannot give myself completely; only by reservation can I create something. However, love knows no limits. If I can hold everything in my arms, what does it matter if my posture is not elegant enough?

5. I know clearly that without the despair of life, there will be no love for life. There are certain defined limits within which people can engage in creativity. However, love has no boundaries. If I can embrace everything, it doesn't matter if I hug it awkwardly.

6. I never understand to what extent people feel that days are both long and short. There is no doubt that the days are long, but they are actually getting longer day by day. They lost their names. The only words that have any meaning to me are "yesterday" and "tomorrow."

7. From this I thought that anyone who is unwilling to choose between two opposing positions will either float above and turn a blind eye to the excitement of the people involved in the incident, or sink deeper and have Something deeper than excitement.

8. Stay there or walk away, the result is the same

9. All great deeds and great ideas have absurd beginnings.

10. Sad people have two reasons for being sad, either they have no knowledge or they have hope.

11. A person who is silent more than speaks is a more valuable person.

12. Nietzsche always only thought in terms of the future apocalypse, not to praise it, because he guessed the final despicable and calculating face of the apocalypse. He wanted to avoid it and change it into rebirth. .

13. When you have been lucky enough to love strongly, you will spend your whole life looking for that kind of heat and light again.

14. It is so true that we rarely trust people who are better than us. We would rather avoid dealing with them. Instead, most often we confide in people who are similar to us and who share our weaknesses. Therefore, we do not wish to correct our weaknesses, nor do we wish to become better, but only to receive mercy and encouragement on our way. We are powerless to do neither evil nor good.

15. To understand a city, the easier way is to explore how people work, love, and die there. In our small town, maybe it's the climate, but everything happens at the same time. They all had the same air, both enthusiastic and absent-minded. That is, people get bored in the city but try to make it a habit. Our fellow citizens work very hard, but always to make a fortune.

16. After discovering that life is absurd, I only have one impulse, which is to write a happiness manual.

17. The distance between my soul and me is so far, but my existence is so real.

18. Only some special people fully know that they can never judge others.

19. When a Christian sees an innocent person’s eyes being gouged out, the believer will either lose his faith or agree to have his eyes gouged out.

20. Returning to a place of happiness and youth is difficult. The gorgeous young girls faced the sea, smiled and chattered non-stop, but the man who watched them gradually lost the right to love them, just like the girls he once loved lost the right to be loved. This melancholy is Proust's melancholy.

21. When the longing for happiness is too eager, pain will arise deep in the human heart.

22. True generosity towards the future is to dedicate everything to the present.

23. Don’t walk in front of me, because I may not follow; don’t walk behind me, because I may not lead the way; please walk beside me and be my friend.

24. In order to change the indifference of nature, I placed myself between suffering and sunshine. Suffering prevents me from imagining everything under the sun and in history as good, but the sun makes me understand that history is not everything. People should live with pain in this cold and burning limited world. You can't eliminate the absurdity of the world, but you can enjoy everything you have now as much as possible.

25. I understand that I cannot remain an outsider forever. Because one day you will be exposed to the scorching sun, and the sun is urging you like a sharp edge. If you don't shoot to break the peace, you will be beaten to death and remain in peace forever. And I must avoid this lose-lose choice. So I have to come back.

26. I love this life unreservedly and am willing to talk about it freely, because it makes me proud of my situation as a human being. However, people often say to me: There is nothing to be proud of. No, there is indeed something to be proud of: this sunshine, this sea, my heart full of youth, my body full of salt, and the vast space where warmth and glory meet in yellow and blue. background.

27. In addition to useless physical suicide and mental escape, the third attitude towards suicide is to persist in struggle and fight against the absurdity of life.

28. Travel deprives us of our hiding place. We are far away from our families, far away from our mother tongue, away from all points of support, stripped of our masks, we float above our own skin. But just because I feel the trauma in my soul, I can restore the miraculous value of everyone and everything.

29. The contradiction lies here. People reject the real world, but they are unwilling to break away from it. In fact, people are attached to this world, and the vast majority of them are unwilling to leave it. Far from forgetting the world, they suffer from not having enough of it.

30. On the one hand, people stubbornly confuse marriage and love; on the other hand, they confuse happiness and love. But there is nothing completely different between them. This is why marriages are sometimes happy, even more often without love than with love. The first person in the philosophy of the absurd: 28 classic quotes from Albert Camus

Albert Camus is the representative of the philosophy of the absurd and the first person to elevate "absurdity" to a philosophical level. The novel "The Stranger", the play "Caligula", and the philosophical essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" can be called Camus' "Trilogy of the Absurd". Camus's description of the sense of absurdity is mostly based on direct life experience. It is the emotion that arises after people experience depression, emptiness, and even despair in their survival experience. On the surface, it seems that absurdity brings pessimism and suffering to people, but in fact the profoundness of Camus' philosophy of absurdity lies in further exploring the core and meaning of "absurdity".

1. Don’t walk behind me, because I may not lead the way; don’t walk in front of me, because I may not follow; please walk beside me and be my friend.

2. All great actions and thoughts have a humble beginning.

3. We rarely trust people who are better than us and would rather avoid interacting with them. Instead, we often confide in people who are similar to us and who share our weaknesses. We do not wish to correct our weaknesses, we only wish to receive compassion and encouragement.

4. Climbing to the top, the struggle itself is enough to enrich the human heart. People must believe that there is more to the mountain than happiness.

5. When the longing for happiness is too eager, pain will arise deep in the human heart.

6. As long as a person learns to remember, he will never be lonely again. Even if you only live in the world for one day, you can live alone in a prison for a hundred years with your memories without any difficulty.

7. The important thing is not to cure, but to live with the pain.

8. When I get tired of listening to someone and want to get rid of them, I pretend to agree.

9. True generosity towards the future is to dedicate everything to the present.

10. The real salvation is not victory after fighting, but the ability to find the strength of life and peace of mind in suffering.

11. In the middle of winter, I finally knew that there was an invincible summer in me.

12. I have no time to become interested in things that don’t interest me anymore.

13. If you don’t despair of life, you won’t love life.

14. If you continue to search for what happiness is made of, you will never find it. If you keep looking for the meaning of life, you will never live it.

15. The distance between my soul and me is so far, but my existence is so real.

16. Evil in the world is almost always caused by ignorance. If there is a lack of understanding, good intentions can cause as much harm as bad intentions.

17. The world is full of lies and servility, and lonely weeds grow everywhere. No matter what weaknesses each of us may have, the nobility of the writer's profession is always rooted in two difficult interventions: rejecting lies and resisting persecution.

18. In the face of huge disasters, the future has become an elusive shore that can never be reached. In a city without a future, people can only give up their patience and reserve and satisfy their various desires. Such a doomsday carnival scene is inevitable.

19. Survival itself is the most powerful resistance to absurdity.

20. Death is something we cannot escape. Everyone has his own death. After all, the sun still warms our bodies and bones.

21. Sad people have two reasons for being sad, either they know nothing, or they have hope.

22. Not being loved can only be said to be unlucky, but not being able to love is a kind of misfortune.

23. Overemphasis on noble behavior will turn into indirect and powerful praise of sin. Because that would lead people to suspect that noble behavior is so valuable just because it is as rare as a morning star, and that cruelty and indifference are the more frequent motivations for human behavior.

24. All great deeds and great ideas have an absurd beginning.

25. We are powerless to do neither evil nor good.

26. Usually, people who choose to devote themselves to art have considered themselves special. However, he will soon discover that his art and his uniqueness are often rooted in similarities with everyone else.

27. As long as I can embrace the world, it doesn’t matter if the hug is awkward.

28. How many people commit crimes simply because they cannot endure evil!