Albert Camus Quotes About Earth

• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Son, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.122, Vintage

• Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Roots, Shadow

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

• On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
  an exquisite dew falls on our heart
  and then vanishes.
  But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
  is what the heart needs.
  The earth must have risen in just such a light
  the morning the world was born.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Fall, Heart

• Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

  Albert Camus

  Earth, Paradise, Gender

• Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

  Albert Camus

  Friendship, Kindness, Compassion

• To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

  Albert Camus

  Hurt, Earth, Injury

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

• What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Earth, May

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

• All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

  Albert Camus

  Simple, Judging, Sound

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

• ... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

  Albert Camus

  God, Prayer, Hate

• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Mistake, Spring

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Light, Sky

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

• The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.60, Vintage

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