Giving Quotes by Albert Camus

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

— Albert Camus

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

— Albert Camus

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

— Albert Camus

Suffering gives us no special rights.

— Albert Camus

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”

— Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

— Albert Camus

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

— Albert Camus

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

— Albert Camus

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing…

— Albert Camus

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

— 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

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

— Albert Camus

Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom

— Albert Camus

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

— Albert Camus

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

— Albert Camus

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world…

— Albert Camus

... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or…

— Albert Camus

When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less…

— Albert Camus

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number…

— Albert Camus

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I…

— Albert Camus

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice…

— 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

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world…

— Albert Camus

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give…

— Albert Camus

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the…

— Albert Camus

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask…

— Albert Camus

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will…

— Albert Camus

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

By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in…

— Albert Camus

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time…

— Albert Camus

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we…

— Albert Camus

“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.”

— Albert Camus

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

— Albert Camus

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the…

— Albert Camus

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass…

— Albert Camus

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what…

— Albert Camus

If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the…

— Albert Camus

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion,…

— Albert Camus

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,…

— Albert Camus

Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds.…

— Albert Camus