Albert Camus Quotes · Page 3

“In this admirable country in which a spring without equal covers it with flowers and its light, men are suffering hunger and…

— Alistair Horne

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” -Albert Camus”

— Andersen Prunty

One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of…

— Gary Reilly

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” ― Albert Camus”

— Olaf Stapledon

“Albert Camus wrote, “In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

— Martha N. Beck

The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in…

— Catherine Camus

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side…

— Catherine Camus

“Albert Camus’s The Stranger, which he’d found revelatory at nineteen. An ancient copy of Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street had been a”

— Matthew FitzSimmons

Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher…

— Catherine 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…

— Albert Camus

“Do not cling to the shore, but set sail for exotic lands and places no longer found on maps. Walk on hallowed…

— Laurence Galian

Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the…

— Joe Meno

To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our…

— Alain de Botton

Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want…

— Catherine Camus

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for…

— Catherine Camus

“The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert…

— Timothy Snyder

“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies,’ wrote Albert Camus.”

— Roman Krznaric

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

— Catherine Camus

Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the…

— Howard Zinn

[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that…

— Catherine Camus

“We are at home in our games because it is the only place we know just what we are supposed to do,”…

— Anonymous

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

— Catherine Camus

“I never consciously think of writing a so-called Christian novel. I don’t think Albert Camus ever thought of writing an existentialist novel,…

— Rudy Wiebe