albert camus – Page 2

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
– Albert Camus –

Ph : Ormond Gigli
Judo championship Paris 1951

I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery …
– Albert Camus –

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.
– Albert Camus – A Happy Death

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming – that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
– Albert Camus –
Ph : Ilayda Portakaloglu

There is not love of life
without despair about life.
– Albert Camus – The Stranger

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth
– Albert Camus –
Ph : Chiara Fersini

When I look at my life and its secret colours,
I feel like bursting into tears.
– Albert Camus – A Happy Death
Ph : Vanessa Von Zitzewitz