Albert Camus Tragedy Quotations

Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible.

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

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