5 Albert Camus Quotes on Tragedy

Albert Camus quotes on tragedy

2. We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

23. What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

59. This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.

159. In the twentieth century power wears the mask of tragedy.

165. Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - That is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.