Albert Camus Quotes About Giving

• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

• The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.98, Vintage

• Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Joy, Defeat

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• Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Giving, Solitude

• I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, People, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Character, Passion

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

• Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Unloved, Misfortunes

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

• Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Giving, Art Is

• Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Regret, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.114, Vintage

• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Our World, Uprising

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

• The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Giving, Tragedy

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

• That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

  Albert Camus

  Love, Sacrifice, Giving

• That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

  Albert Camus

  Sacrifice, Giving, Return

• The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Choices, Bitterness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Sea, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

• If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Blessing, Hands

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Agony, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Animal, Giving

• I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Real, Blow

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Travel, Old Habits

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Giving, Principles

• When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, People, Giving

• What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.

  Albert Camus

  Running, Cutting, Luxury

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

• I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

  Albert Camus

  Giving Up, Ambition, Upset

• There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

  Albert Camus

  Light, Essence, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.45, Vintage

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