Humans Quotes by Albert Camus

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

— Albert Camus

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

— Albert Camus

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

— Albert Camus

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

— Albert Camus

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

— Albert Camus

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

— Albert Camus

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

— Albert Camus

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

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Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than…

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What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and…

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Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is…

— Albert Camus

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live…

— Albert Camus

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a…

— Albert Camus

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the…

— Albert Camus

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they…

— Albert Camus

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full…

— Albert Camus

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the…

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The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is…

— Albert Camus

Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to…

— Albert Camus

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books…

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Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,…

— Albert Camus

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard…

— Albert Camus

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists…

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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

— Albert Camus

I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to…

— Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that…

— Albert Camus

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

— Albert Camus

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the…

— Albert Camus

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive…

— Albert Camus

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,…

— Albert Camus

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to…

— Albert Camus

Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel.…

— Albert Camus

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the…

— Albert Camus

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost,…

— Albert Camus

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is…

— Albert Camus