Albert Camus Quotes About Myth

• 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

• The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

  Albert Camus

  War, Clouds, Storm

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.275, Vintage

• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

  Albert Camus

  Drama, Flower, Passion

• 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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