Albert-camus Quotes

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a r...

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilli...

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...

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

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

You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is ...

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

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

To create is to live twice.

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is...

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bi...

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches...

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering ...

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...

And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...

We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, be...

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness f...

You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was...

I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire hist...

…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our...

This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...

It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring ...

They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the m...

In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations...

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a bel...

It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and thi...

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