 |
| Albert Camus Quotes |
Albert Camus
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert Camus
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
We are all special cases.
Albert Camus
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
Albert Camus
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Albert Camus
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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
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
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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
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
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
