If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. — 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
Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds… — 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
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful… — 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
