Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Albert Camus Quotes
ArtCommitmentFreedomIndividualityRebellion The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Essence of BeingIdentityInnocenceNostalgiaRebellion Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
BeautyDespairEternityPerceptionTime Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
HappinessLivingMeaning of Life You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
DespairEmotionLoveStrategy It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
ArtBeautyCommunityConnectionUnderstanding The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
CrimeHuman NatureJusticePunishment For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
IntellectKnowledgeMindfulnessReflectionSelf-awareness An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
BeautyGreatnessHumanitySecret Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
Communication ChallengesEmotional BarriersSelf-ImprovementTrust IssuesVulnerability We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
ConsequenceDiscriminationJusticeMoralityPrinciple No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
AuthenticityDeceptionEmotionSimplicityTruth Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
DespairFaithGuidanceSolitude Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
DestinyFutilityHopelessnessPerseveranceResilience The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Artistic GrowthAuthenticityCreativitySelf-ExpressionSource of Inspiration Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Emotional ControlHuman NatureInner ConflictSelf Reflection We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
ContentmentHappinessJudgmentMaterialismSpirituality It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
ArtDreamEmotionMusic Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.