In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory…everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That was unthinkable, he said; all men believe in God, even those who reject Him. Of this he was absolutely sure; if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
