Albert Camus: Citations en anglais

Albert Camus était écrivain et journaliste français. Citations en anglais.
Albert Camus: 302 citations57 J'aime

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Étranger

The Stranger (1942)

“Can one be a saint without God?, that's the problem, in fact the only problem, I'm up against today.”

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Albert Camus livre La Peste

The Plague (1947)

“In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable — il n'a pas commencé l'histoire — ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
Part 5: Thought at the Meridian (Section: Moderation and Excess)
The Rebel (1951)

“Having money is a way of being free of money.”

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Albert Camus livre La Mort heureuse

Avoir de l'argent c'est se libérer de l'argent.
A Happy Death (1971)

“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.”

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Albert Camus livre Le Mythe de Sisyphe

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man

“The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.”

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Albert Camus livre Le Mythe de Sisyphe

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

Part 2: Metaphysical Rebellion
The Rebel (1951)

“In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

The Rebel (1951)

“So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.”

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Albert Camus

Notebooks (1942–1951)

“He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.”

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Albert Camus livre La Mort heureuse

A Happy Death (1971)

““The real saint”, Baudelaire pretends to think, “is he who flogs and kills people for their own good.” His argument will be heard. A race of real saints is beginning to spread over the earth for the purposes of confirming these curious conclusions about rebellion.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

The Rebel (1951)

“Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”

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Albert Camus livre Le Mythe de Sisyphe

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

Part 2: Metaphysical Rebellion
The Rebel (1951)

“Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)

“I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Étranger

The Stranger (1942)

“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”

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Albert Camus

As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126

“The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

Part 2: Metaphysical Rebellion
The Rebel (1951)

“When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

The Rebel (1951)

“A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

Part 2: Metaphysical Rebellion
The Rebel (1951)