Reason Quotes by Albert Camus

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

— Albert Camus

Art does not tolerate reason.

— Albert Camus

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

— Albert Camus

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

— Albert Camus

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

— Albert Camus

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

— Albert Camus

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

— Albert Camus

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is…

— Albert Camus

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

— Albert Camus

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long…

— Albert Camus

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

— Albert Camus

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the…

— Albert Camus

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center…

— Albert Camus

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,…

— Albert Camus

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to…

— Albert Camus

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the…

— Albert Camus

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back…

— Albert Camus

“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it…

— Albert Camus

For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion…

— Albert Camus

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I…

— Albert Camus

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable…

— Albert Camus

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has…

— Albert Camus

She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute…

— Albert Camus

Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's…

— Albert Camus

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained…

— Albert Camus

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the…

— Albert Camus

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his…

— Albert Camus

“No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world…

— Albert Camus

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is…

— Albert Camus

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day…

— Albert Camus

But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there…

— Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream,…

— Albert Camus