Albert Camus Quotes About Today

• Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

  Albert Camus

  Decisions You Make, Choices Made, Today

• To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Cutting, Men

• We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Loss, Exercise

• Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mother, Yesterday

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.2, Hamilton Books

• Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

  Albert Camus

  Law, Yesterday, Trials

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

• Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Historical, Tasks

• Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

  Albert Camus

  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

• Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Today, Ready

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

• In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, World, Today

  "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

• Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

  Albert Camus

  Mother, Home, Mean

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

• The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Tasks, Rare Moments

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

• To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Forgiving, Age

• A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Suffering, Today

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Luck, Energy

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

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