Albert Camus Quotes

One of the cafés had that brilliant idea of putting up a slogan: 'the best protection against infect...

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the w...

My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kill...

There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished w...

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own ...

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, ...

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or...

I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be...

he doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also...

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...

Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for y...

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself...

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's dee...

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects ...

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or ...

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary...

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he...

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me...

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as ...

որևէ քաղաք ճանաչելու ամենաճիշտ ձևերից մեկն էլ իմանալն է, թե ինչպե՞ս են այնտեղ աշխատում, ինչպե՞ս են ս...

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to...

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence i...

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...

My dear,In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.In the midst of tears...

Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.

I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to ...

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. ...

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not ...

I know positively… that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth, is free from ...

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...

Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid...

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die...

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I lik...

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither t...

On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow ...

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi...

At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt...

In a certain sense it might well be said that his was an exemplary life. He was one of those rare pe...

And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too:...

the evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as...

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want...

I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. And today I am still trying to fi...

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't...

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffe...

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons ...

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately...

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of ...

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not...

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helples...

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then...

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great fact...

. But itis obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it ...

From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for e...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as ...

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the se...

For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indiffer...

How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can rememb...

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.

...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their ...

After awhile you could get used to anything.

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And e...

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations a...