Which are your favorite Albert Camus quotes?
Albert Camus, (born November 7, 1913, Mondovi, Algeria—died January 4, 1960, near Sens, France), French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as L’Étranger (1942; The Stranger), La Peste (1947; The Plague), and La Chute (1956; The Fall) and for his work in leftist causes. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.
64 Albert Camus Quotes
- A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. — Albert Camus
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
- A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. — Albert Camus
- A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. — Albert Camus
- A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. — Albert Camus
- Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Albert Camus
- After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get the knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Albert Camus
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
- An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. — Albert Camus
- As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — Albert Camus
- At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. — Albert Camus
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus
- Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. — Albert Camus
- But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? — Albert Camus
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. — Albert Camus
- Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. — Albert Camus
- Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. — Albert Camus
- Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day. — Albert Camus
- Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. — Albert Camus
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- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. — 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. — Albert Camus
- I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is. — Albert Camus
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. — Albert Camus
- In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus
- Integrity has no need of rules. — Albert Camus
- It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. — Albert Camus
- It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all. — Albert Camus
- Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. — Albert Camus
- Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. — Albert Camus
- Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked, or used. As for being understood – never. — Albert Camus
- Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. — Albert Camus
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. — Albert Camus
- Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus
- Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. — Albert Camus
- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. — Albert Camus
- The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
- The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. — Albert Camus
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. — Albert Camus
- The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. — Albert Camus
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- The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. — Albert Camus
- The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. — Albert Camus
- The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus
- The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. — Albert Camus
- The society based on production is only productive, not creative. — Albert Camus
- The welfare of the people, in particular, has always been the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. — Albert Camus
- Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — Albert Camus
- Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. — Albert Camus
- Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. — Albert Camus
- To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. — Albert Camus
- To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. — Albert Camus
- To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
- Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. — Albert Camus
- Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. — Albert Camus
- We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus
- We call first truths those we discover after all the others. — Albert Camus
- We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. — Albert Camus
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. — Albert Camus
- We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. — Albert Camus
- Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others. — Albert Camus
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- Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. — Albert Camus
- You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus
- You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. — Albert Camus
- You have to be very rich or very poor to live without trade. — Albert Camus
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