Albert Camus Quotes

“One would like to be loved, recognized, for what one is, and by everyone. But that is an adolescent desire. Sooner or…

— Robert Zaretsky

“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think…

— Robert Zaretsky

I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think…

— Catherine Camus

“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. —Albert…

— Steven D. Price

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

— Catherine Camus

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any…

— Catherine Camus

“... Like having to be able to say to yourself, ‘I am pretending to sit here reading Albert Camus’s The Fall for…

— David Foster Wallace

“A sweeping vista of Northern sky opens up between the warehouses and hangs motionless above the cobbled streets. It’s a world of…

— Neil Schiller

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he…

— Aberjhani

There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that…

— Natasha Lyonne

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the…

— Luke Rhinehart

“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t…

— Timothy Snyder

“Day 247 It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.  Albert Camus”

— Deena B. Chopra

“Life is a sum of all your choices,” wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others…

— Howard Schultz

Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are…

— Catherine Camus

“History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored , in which he proceeded to…

— Howard Zinn

Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection,…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

— Catherine Camus

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious…

— Tom Robbins

“My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as…

— Howard Zinn

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal,” says Albert Camus.”

— Gillian Marchenko

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.…

— Catherine Camus

“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports…

— John Leonard