Albert Camus Quotes About Imagination

• I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Imagination, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

  Albert Camus

  War, Men, Imagination

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

• Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

  Albert Camus

  Art, People, Imagination

• When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Men, Speaks Out

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

• Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

  Albert Camus

  Imagination, Made, Myth

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

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