"For if there is a sin against..." - Quote by Albert Camus
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
More by Albert Camus
“In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.”
“...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.”
“Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.”
More on Life
“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”
“Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.”
“One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.”
More on Despair
“I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!”
“Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe.”
“Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,I had a beautiful friendAnd dreamed that the old despairWould end in love in the end.”