Albert Camus Quotes on World (23 Quotes)

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably. Still, somehow this line of thought wasn't as consoling as it should have been; the idea of all those years of life in hand was a galling reminder!

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself so like a brother, really I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.