Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Albert camus
Date: January 14, 2008
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Live to the point of tears.
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.