“God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the… — 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
“In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — 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
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes… — 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