Albert Camus Quotes about Reality

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A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Albert Camus

Reality, Use, Existential

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.124, Vintage

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

Albert Camus

Rain, Struggle, Reality

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.258, Vintage

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

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

Albert Camus

Heart, Reality, Men

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Albert Camus

Reality, Our World, Uprising

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

Reality, Evil, Principles

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

Albert Camus

Struggle, Reality, Years

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

Albert Camus

Distance, Reality, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

Albert Camus

Book, Reality, Cities

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.50, Vintage