Philosophy Quote by Albert Camus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.”

“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.”

“Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill beyond all remedy. The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can an armistice for a mother bereaved of a son or for a man who buries his friend.”

“Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”

“✨ “Between logic and longing lies the heart’s truest memory — the kind that even time cannot erase.”

“Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.”

“We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”

“Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.”

“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.”

“அலைகடலும் ஓய்ந்திருக்க அகக் கடல்தான் பொங்குவதேன்?”