Ifs Quotes by Albert Camus

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

— Albert Camus

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

— Albert Camus

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

— Albert Camus

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

— Albert Camus

I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

— Albert Camus

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with…

— Albert Camus

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

— Albert Camus

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

— Albert Camus

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen…

— Albert Camus

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not…

— Albert Camus

Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as…

— Albert Camus

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to…

— Albert Camus

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that…

— 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

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

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very…

— Albert Camus

What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance…

— Albert Camus

A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent…

— Albert Camus

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,…

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful…

— 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

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose…

— Albert Camus

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

— Albert Camus

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— 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

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a…

— Albert Camus

Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so,…

— Albert Camus

“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

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

— Albert Camus

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has…

— Albert Camus

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to…

— 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

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me…

— 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

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

— Albert Camus

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order…

— Albert Camus

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created…

— Albert Camus