Certain Quotes by Albert Camus

“We are not certain, we are never certain.”

— Albert Camus

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

— Albert Camus

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb,…

— Albert Camus

Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how…

— Albert Camus

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

— Albert Camus

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to…

— Albert Camus

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and…

— Albert Camus

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

— Albert Camus

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely.…

— Albert Camus

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make…

— Albert Camus

On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers,…

— Albert Camus

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they…

— Albert Camus

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite…

— Albert Camus

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a…

— Albert Camus

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must…

— Albert Camus

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is…

— Albert Camus

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from…

— Albert Camus

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,…

— Albert Camus

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class…

— Albert Camus

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head.…

— Albert Camus