Quotes By Albert Camus BACK
- Man is the only creature
- In the midst of winter,
- The only way to deal
- But in the end one
- Don't walk in front
- You will never be happy
- I may not have been
- Should I kill myself, or
- Autumn is a second spring
- Nobody realizes that some people
- You know what charm is:
- When I look at my
- In the depth of winter,
- Real generosity towards the future
- Live to the point of
- Blessed are the hearts that
- This divorce between man and
- An intellectual? Yes. And never
- Youth is above all a
- In that daily effort in
- Utopia is that which is
- You will never be able
- For what gives value to
- In the world today, only
- It is immoral not to
- God is not necessary to
- To those who despair of
- To feel absolutely right is
- The revolutionary government was required
- Truth and freedom, having few
- She was wearing a pair
- Myths are made for the
- There are means that cannot
- Nothing is given to mankind
- Human relationships always help us
- I was born poor and
- Don't let them tell
- In the next few years
- Life is meaningless, but worth
- The best are led to
- Just as all thought, and
- The absurd is lucid reason
- We continue to shape our
- Purely historical thought is therefore
- There will be no lasting
- Whoever gives nothing, has nothing.
- You will never live if
- We're all special cases.
- To create is likewise to
- The artist forges himself to
- It should be pointed out
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus
- We are condemned to live
- For the first time, the
- The world is never quiet,
- paris is dirty It has
- There was the same dazzling
- After all perhaps the greatness
- If there is a soul,
- But when a man has
- Every stone here sweats with
- A man is more a
- Madness such as this, its
- Suffering gives us no special
- When one has no character,
- I sometimes need to write
- There always comes a time
- Each generation doubtless feels called
- One plays at being immortal
- He knew now that it
- You make the mistake of
- The mistake that men make
- On good days, if you
- For centuries the death penalty,
- Those who prefer their principles
- Men who have greatness within
- Modern conquerors can kill, but
- Beginning to think is beginning
- A fate is not a
- If it adapts itself to
- An achievement is a bondage.
- I have the loftiest idea,
- There is scarcely any passion
- To think is first of
- Do not be afraid of
- It is not your paintings
- At that moment he knew
- What the world requires of
- Nothing in life is worth,
- Likewise, every time somebody interjects
- When the body is sad,
- But what is happiness except
- The most loathsome materialism is
- You must have a love,
- We are not so mad
- Instead of killing and dying
- The only conception of freedom
- The important thing isn't
- He who despairs of the
- Only the sea, murmurous behind
- Only he who is uncompromising
- I was absent at the
- Unhappiness is like marriage We
- Against eternal injustice, man must
- And so I learned that
- A liking for truth at
- I am alive again, now
- Ah, mon cher, for anyone
- To create today is to
- I felt as I hadn'
- In the world there is,
- For me, physical love has
- We spend our days in
- There is so much stubborn
- True artists scorn nothing.
- Why must one love rarely
- To be happy, we must
- The primordial sea indefatigably repeats
- Poor and free rather than
- I had been right I
- The act of love . . . is
- You know, a man always
- What the world expects of
- It is better to burn
- Integrity needs no rules.
- The laws of nature may
- In the depths of winter,
- I was assailed by memories
- It's not your pictures
- I enjoyed my own nature
- The urge to revolt is
- I have a good, hearty
- The future is the only
- Mon cher ami, let's
- Then we understand that rebellion
- It's not the struggle
- Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in
- Every minute of life carries
- Any country where I am
- If Nietzsche is correct, that
- The certainty of a God
- They hurt each other without
- I was tormented by my
- If something is going to
- The world I live in
- Mostly, I could tell, I
- The end of their passion
- After another moment's silence
- The mind's deepest desire,
- The real 19th century prophet
- The truth is that every
- No longer were there individual
- Beginning to think is beginning
- What would become of the
- For a man who loves
- The temptation shared by all
- Yes, everything is simple. It'
- Truth, like light, is blinding.
- I do not want to
- History, as an entirety, could
- No ends, simply means.
- A living man can be
- Something must happen; that is
- History has shown that the
- The Byronic hero, incapable of
- A man wants to earn
- Revolution, in order to be
- In fact, it comes to
- I cling like a miser
- The ancients, even though they
- It is easy to shield
- One must place one's
- The words that reverberate for
- The absurd is a shadow
- The current motto for all
- More and more, revolution has
- Rule: Start by looking for
- Where there is no hope,
- Life can be magnificent and
- Whoever today speaks of human
- Still, obviously, one can't
- We are not certain, we
- Love is the kind of
- Don't believe your friends
- The real passion of the
- Real generosity toward the future
- Rebellion cannot exist without a
- People don't love each
- One dies if necessary, one
- Stupidity has a knack of
- One might think, that a
- What did it matter if
- No matter how the sun
- We [writers] must know that
- The more I accuse myself,
- There is but one truly
- The only way out [of
- Man cannot do without beauty,
- After a short silence the
- Charm is a way of
- Happiness too is inevitable.
- Great feelings take with them
- The truth, as the light,
- If I convince myself that
- Believe me, the hardest thing
- I longed to be forgotten
- Peace is the only battle
- It happens that the stage
- Every act of rebellion expresses
- In a world that has
- The realization that life is
- The truth is that nothing
- Men cry because things are
- Man is the only creature
- Truth, like light is dazzling.
- Women are all we know
- To be famous, in fact,
- Camus himself described this work
- Freedom is not a reward
- The welfare of the people
- But,' I reminded myself, 'it'
- The loss of love is
- People have played on words
- In truth, I was so
- We always deceive ourselves twice
- Cruel irony, the poor man
- To write is to become
- When a war breaks out,
- Freedom is not a gift
- At a certain level of
- All modern revolutions have ended
- In the vast reaches of
- Maman used to say that
- Integrity has no need of
- It's better to bet
- In normal times all of
- Without freedom there is no
- If those whom we begin
- No, Father, I've a
- Virtue cannot separate itself from
- Men are never really willing
- Do not be surprised. I
- If you keep on excusing,
- We rarely confide in those
- One recognizes one's course
- I lived with the only
- In the end, we would
- I always found misogyny vulgar
- Without culture, and the relative
- Wandering seemed no more than
- The slave and those whose
- Rebellion, in man, is the
- The entire history of mankind
- I'd have given ten
- Once one's up against
- But in order to speak
- The struggle to reach the
- For ever, I shall be
- To live is in itself
- At the heart of all
- Every writer, big or small,
- But above all, in order
- Being is good, but getting
- Nothing in the world is
- Always go too far, because
- When I was young, I
- From the moment absurdity is
- Great feelings take with them
- But who would dare condemn
- In every rebellion is to
- Artistic creation is a demand
- We do not know how
- there's no question of
- Death means nothing to men
- Metaphysical rebellion is a claim,
- A novel is never anything
- Accept life, take it as
- In a universe suddenly divested
- And real nobility (that of
- Once crime was as solitary
- I've seen of enough
- The more I produce, the
- Men like us are good
- All great deeds and all
- My great idea is that
- My dear friend, we mustn'
- Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in
- The evil that is in
- Mother died today. Or maybe
- There may be responsible persons,
- There are two types of
- Tout re volutionnaire finit en
- We are all special cases.
- We all carry within us
- Morality, when formal, devours.
- Life is a sum of
- How had I not seen
- The modern mind is in
- The great courage is to
- A stranger to myself and
- Germany collapsed as a result
- The best revenge you can
- Life is the result of
- Politics and the fate of
- You know, [women] do not
- Maman used to say that
- For there is merely bad
- maybe she had become tired
- I know myself too well
- Beauty, no doubt, does not
- The most important thing you
- Greatness consists in trying to
- That must be wonderful; I
- If the only significant history
- Because,' Cormery went on, 'when
- Intelligence in chains loses in
- In our well policed society
- It is the job of
- To understand one's world,
- The day when I am
- You will always win if
- Like great works, deep feelings
- What made me run away
- To know oneself, one should
- Fancy language, like poplin, too
- If pimps and thieves everywhere
- I've never really had
- Somebody has to have the
- I know of only one
- The desire for possession is
- I do not have much
- At times I feel myself
- I have always felt I
- What is human in me
- On the ridge where the
- Whats true of all the
- A character is never the
- I had the whole sky
- When the imagination sleeps, words
- The innocent is the person
- Every ideology is contrary to
- In default of inexhaustible happiness,
- In this vast country that
- The world in which we
- After all, I do not
- Thus, in a middle course
- I see many people die
- I would rather not have
- But, you know, I feel
- Beauty is unbearable, drives us
- In our society, any man
- Those who write clearly have
- No doubt our love was
- If absolute truth belongs to
- It occurred to me that
- There can be no question
- Between history and the eternal
- The struggle itself towards the
- Marxism is not scientific: at
- Human rebellion ends in metaphysical
- I knew a pure heart
- How do you put everyone
- Since we're all going
- The most elementary form of
- Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood,
- I draw from the Absurd
- Have pity, Lord, on those
- I felt the urge to
- At the heart of all
- Man is an idea, and
- Men die and they are
- I opened myself to the
- There exists an obvious fact
- A loveless world is a
- The opposite of an idealist
- When silence or tricks of
- I'd buy myself a
- Without memories, without hope, they
- There is a life and
- These are facts the heart
- There are plagues, and there
- The aim of art, the
- Healthy people have a natural
- I understood, by dint of
- Because there is nothing here
- It is not the world
- In fact, other people create
- When I see a new
- It would be unjust, and
- Capital punishment is the most
- Most men are like me.
- The spirit of rebellion can
- For if I try to
- He was conscious of the
- On certain mornings, as we
- Once in the midst of
- The soul of a murderer
- Lying is not only saying
- So the thing that bothered
- If man is reduced to
- Yes, and when the love
- In Italian museums are sometimes
- many artists even the greatest
- I should like to be
- The realization that life is
- There are causes worth dying
- Absolute virtue is impossible and
- It is better for the
- I am not made for
- One grows out of pity
- The need to be right
- At one time or another
- I would rather live my
- The absurd is essentially a
- Believe me there is no
- True debauchery is liberating because
- Everyone would like to behave
- From Paul to Stalin, the
- liberty is a choreand a
- A rgime [Nazism] which invented
- Every time I hear a
- In order to be created,
- When I was young I
- There are some individuals who
- The act of love is
- This absurd, godless world is,
- Capital punishment is the most
- It is not humiliating to
- Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying
- To me, art is not
- We need the sweet pain
- What will be left of
- Can one be a saint
- I know [my label], in
- The workman of today works
- There is nothing abstract about
- But I cannot make a
- The contradiction is this: man
- The work of art is
- Every time I hear a
- Existence is illusory and it
- All I know of morality
- The myth of unlimited production
- On the whole, men are
- The absurd depends as much
- There is no fate that
- And never have I felt
- Liberty is dangerous, as hard
- Il y a dans les
- I have always thought it
- To be born to create,
- There are more things to
- False judges are held up
- Europe has lived on its
- Man wants to live, but
- Without freedom, no art; art
- life is a story and
- One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
- stupidity has a knack of
- There can be no question
- Judging whether life is or
- That is love, to give
- Moreover, most people, assuming they
- Independence is earned by a
- Again and again there comes
- The most eloquent eulogy of
- At that time, I often
- History only exists, in the
- Real fulfillment, for the man
- If, after all, men cannot
- The look of success, when
- That's love, giving everything,
- At 30 a man should
- Je puis nier une chose
- A taste for truth at
- There is always a philosophy
- And then came human beings;
- To think the way you
- For those of us who
- From the evening breeze to
- To abandon oneself to principles
- The slave begins by demanding
- There is but one freedom,
- The nobility of our calling
- I hope the dogs don'
- Rebellion cannot exist without the
- There is no more futile
- We must admit that today
- Old women even forget how
- Freedom is not a reward
- There is no longer a
- Retaliation is related to nature
- Believe me, religions are on
- I leave Sisyphus at the
- The most exhausting effort in
- I can feel this heart
- We come into the world
- No human being, even the
- Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
- I continue to believe that
- At the age of 40,
- The future is the only
- For instance, I never complained
- Proof is never definitive, after
- Old married people look so
- No code of ethics and
- Don't wait for the
- The Four Conditions of Happiness:
- But all the long speeches,
- In order to exist, man
- To remain a man in
- Thus I progressed on the
- No matter what cause one
- Violence is both unavoidable and
- To insure the adoration of
- Analysis of rebellion leads at
- The only real progress lies
- Outside of that single fatality
- A symbol always transcends the
- Some are created to love,
- I have no idea what'
- The first concern of any
- There's the risk of
- Nihilism is not only despair
- The love of God is
- Nothing can discourage the appetite
- I know that man is
- Empires and churches are born
- Imagination offers people consolation for
- When the soul suffers too
- Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has
- We get into the habit
- I don't want to
- By definition, a government has
- How many crimes are permitted
- My life was lucky so
- Great novelists are philosopher novelists
- I am too much in
- Freedom is the right to
- To live is to hurt
- Believe me, for certain men
- We can't do without
- There is no shame in
- People believe a man is
- There is but one truly
- Fate is not in man
- Truly fertile Music, the only
- The French Revolution gave birth
- Human relationships always help us
- I shall not, as far
- By giving too much importance
- Paneloux is a man of
- As for those whose role
- We're going forward, but
- My profession lent itself nicely
- Get scared. It will do
- What is a rebel? A
- Without work, all life goes
- It is natural to give
- There are crimes of passion
- The harshest winter finds an
- An intense feeling carries with
- In the light, the earth
- All men have a sweetness
- I am just coming out
- To govern means to pillage,
- It was in Spain that [
- In order to understand the
- Men are convinced of your
- The world is unimportant and
- I have never been able,
- Ce que je sais de
- In order to exist just
- But the world itself has
- One always has exaggerated ideas
- Your successes and happiness are
- The absurd is sin without
- Heroism is accessible. Happiness is
- This is the century of
- Men and women consume one
- We are not certain, we
- There is no frontier between
- We get into the habit
- Accepting the absurdity of everything
- I make myself strict rules
- In Holland, everyone is an
- To lose the touch of
- There are places where the
- To two men living the
- When one has extensively pondered
- At any street corner the
- All I maintain is that
- There are people who vindicate
- Travel, which is like a
- Poverty, first of all was
- If nothing had any meaning,
- The purpose of a writer
- No cause justifies the deaths
- In order to exist, man
- It's a kind of
- But it's not easy.
- A work of art is
- Who taught you all this,
- For the first time in
- Our reason has driven all
- What more ghastly image can
- We are living in the
- Martyrs, my friend, have to
- Men are never convinced of
- We are rebels for a
- We must stitch up what
- In the midst of winter,
- The first choice an artist
- Great ideas come into the
- The role of the intellectual
- Am well. Thinking of you
- They came to know the
- Happiness implied a choice, and
- Don't walk behind me;
- There is in me an
- A free press can, of
- Thinking is learning all over
- Alas, after a certain age
- As for Hitler, his professed
- Absolute freedom mocks at justice.
- No excuses ever, for anyone;
- I dont know whether this
- Indeed, men never know how
- One cannot be a part
- I don't want to
- I feel like getting married,
- A man without ethics is
- Life continues, and some mornings,
- Query how contrive not to
- I felt that I had
- A profound thought is in
- All systems of morality are
- One cannot be happy in
- It is necessary to fall
- Some other memories of the
- The Poor Man whom everyone
- Man stands face to face
- Every rebellion implies some kind
- A guilty conscience needs to
- It was previously a question
- What really counted was the
- For who would dare to
- Why should it be essential
- But again and again there
- What is called a reason
- There is a solitude in
- Of course, true love is
- Here lives a free man.
- Slave camps under the flag
- I knew that I had
- I do not want to
- One leader, one people, signifies
- Creating is living doubly. The
- There is no sun without
- The habit of despair is
- From Pandora's Box, where
- Art does not tolerate reason.
- Happiness is generous. It does
- Yes, I'm happy, in
- Thoughts of suicide have got
- The truth is that everyone
- In art, rebellion is consummated
- Great ideas, it has been
- Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing
- I hadn't understood how
- I realized then that a
- The true work of art
- Democracy is not the law
- I had only a little
- No one who lives in
- We turn toward God only
- Working conditions for me have
- He said firmly god can
- Any authentic creation is a
- Does the end justify the
- The human heart has a
- how hard it must be
- It is normal to give
- To lose one's life
- The reasoning is classic in
- Holland is a dream, Monsieur,
- An intellectual is someone whose
- Don't lies eventually lead
- Nothing is more despicable than
- Lucifer also has died with
- I was comfortable in all,
- The greatness of man lies
- Too many have dispensed with
- Always there comes an hour
- I conceived at least one
- The sense of doing good ,
- Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
- There is not one talent
- What I believe to be
- The danger of lectures is
- And indeed it could be
- Whatever prevents you from doing
- What on earth prompted you
- People hasten to judge in
- To begin with, poor peoples
- Absurd that is the light
- In order to understand the
- If the world were clear,
- When there is no hope,
- Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: '
- Some people talk in their
- You always get exaggerated notions
- All that remains is a
- I love life thats my
- Beware of those who say: "
- The play of the toughest
- It is not true that
- Freedom of the press is
- Art and revolt will die
- If Christianity is pessimistic as
- To cut short this question
- The absurd has meaning only
- He had been bored, that'
- Love cannot accept what it
- After awhile you could get
- What must be remembered in
- In Oran, as elsewhere, for
- There was a time when
- A writer cannot put himself
- I feel more fellowship with
- Every artist preserves deep within
- Having money is a way
- Over there, in Europe, all
- To assert in any case
- If we believe in nothing,
- To correct a natural indifference
- Have you no hope at
- Idleness is fatal only to
- There is only one class
- The only serious question in
- O light! This the cry
- Whereas the Greeks gave to
- L'absurde est la notion
- Those who weep for the
- Maman died today. Or yesterday
- There is but one freedom,
- The principles which men give
- For the existentials, negation is
- We turn our backs on
- A man who has become
- Happiness is not everything and
- You have to be very
- None of the evils which
- May heaven protect us, cher
- So all a man could
- Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers,
- More and more, when faced
- The struggle to the top
- If the descent is thus
- A lot of jobs don'
- Today we are always as
- Culture: the cry of men
- It is not rebellion itself
- The tragedy is not that
- Our civilization survives in the
- Thus each of us had
- When I look at my
- Yes, there was an element
- If only nature is real
- There is always a certain
- A single sentence will suffice
- Happiness and the absurd are
- The absurd is the essential
- In short, they were gambling
- What can a meaning outside
- For if there is a
- With rebellion, awareness is born
- On my way out I
- The only really committed artist
- Seeking what is true is
- He was expressing his certainty
- You have so much inside
- After all manner of professors
- As soon as one does
- We have to live and
- I rebel; therefore I exist.
- In that night alive with
- I do not believe in
- If one could only say
- Liberty is the right not
- What gives value to travel
- Their guilt made me eloquent
- In the past, the poverty
- Generally, I like all islands.
- Every authentic work of art
- All healthy men have thought
- Where there is no hope,
- It is easier to kill
- I grew up with the
- It is always easy to
- We don't have the
- This world, such as it
- Since the order of the
- This very heart which is
- Friendship is not so simple.
- La ve rite , comme la
- Children will still die unjustly
- It is terrifying to see
- The world expects of Christians
- Truth is mysterious, elusive, always
- There are people who prefer
- Every great work makes the
- Powerful, yes, that is the
- There is merely bad luck
- Psychology is action, not thinking
- The most knowledgeable person in
- I know simply that the
- Note, besides, that it is
- he's incapable of suffering
- But what does it mean,
- Habit starts at the second
- And often he who has
- The absurd hero's refusal
- She was waiting, but she
- I looked up at the
- But sometimes it takes more
- A trial cannot be conducted
- After all, every murderer when
- When the throne of God
- Sometimes at night I would
- It is impossible to give
- Men must live and create.
- We used to wonder where
- His own faith, however, was
- Yes, I know what passion
- I realized people would soon
- If God did not exist,
- What, then, is that incalculable
- but perhaps we should love
- I am too far away
- For years I've wanted
- But what are a hundred
- There are always reasons for
- Even when one sits in
- The first progressive step for
- When you have once seen
- God put self pity by
- Conscious of not being able
- Revolt and revolution both wind
- A sub clerk in the
- Truth is not a virtue,
- I have a very old
- I have never been able
- For rich people, the sky
- And for all his life
- I spent a long time
- Every man needs slaves like
- Every revolutionary ends up either
- Do you believe in God,
- To grow old is to
- There is a terrible emptiness
- the one who doesnt play,
- When love ceases to be
- Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask
- Everybody knows life isn't
- Everybody knows that pestilences have
- All great deeds and all
- We all have a weakness
- To stay or to go,
- Psychology is action, not thinking
- One of the only coherent
- Crime too is a form
- We [Raymond and Meursault] stared
- Absolute justice is achieved by
- A person I knew used
- I want to know if
- Every man, and for stronger
- Everything considered, a determined soul
- My chief occupation, despite appearances,
- You know very well that
- There is the good and
- Forever I shall be a
- Everything is true, and nothing
- I suppose that it is
- Life is the sum of
- Finally, and most of all,
- If we understood the enigmas
- Man is always prey to
- I like people who dream
- I have not stopped loving
- The society based on production
- You cannot acquire experience by
- In this respect, our townsfolk
- Perhaps we cannot prevent this
- The principle can be established
- Thinking of the future, establishing
- For the absurd man, it
- You cannot create experience. You
- I explained to him, however,
- There can be no true
- I have no friends, I
- A man's work is
- Ah! my friend, for whomever
- Realism should only be the
- Likewise and during every day
- Those who love, friends and
- Freedom is not constituted primarily
- Fiction is the lie through
- All that I know most
- But too many people now
- Obstinacy alone is not a
- There is no love of
- Basically, at the very bottom
- In our wildest aberrations we
- We must learn how to
- I said that the world
- Liberty is dangerous.
- We are all exceptional cases.
- There was only one thing
- In every guilty man, there
- There is not a single
- The day of my arrest
- The rebel can never find
- It is in the thick
- I like these people swarming
- Humans are creatures, who spent
- Big tears of frustration and
- What is a rebel? A
- Find your happiness in yourself.
- We have art in order
- What, in fact, is a
- A true masterpiece does not
- Have you noticed that only
- How hard it is, how
- I used to advertise my
- It takes time to live.
- Do not wait for the
- Many fledgling moralists in those
- The only deep emotion I
- A craving for freedom and
- Methods of thought which claim
- It is a well known
- A nihilist is not one
- They knew now that if
- Chacun exige d'e" tre
- What's natural is the
- what doesn't kill you
- Freedom is nothing but a
- Art, at least, teaches us
- And I too, felt ready
- Without work all life goes
- A sub clerk in the
- Time will prolong time, and
- In order to speak about
- Where would his torture be,
- He had opened his heart
- He seemed so certain about
- Your success and happiness are
- What is a firm hand
- The main thing is that
- We call first truths those
- Those who lack the courage
- I would like to be
- It is true that i
- Although it was the middle
- Man has an idea of
- I felt as though I
- Give up the tyranny of
- As a remedy to life
- A man devoid of hope
- Nature is a burning and
- Thus I draw from the
- The kingdom of heaven will,
- That's the way man
- Murder is terribly exhausting.
- And it was like knocking
- I was always able to
- Here where the gaze is
- Only it takes time to
- love is the type of
- But do you know why
- We know the surrealist solution:
- Life should be lived to