My own life Quotes by Albert Camus

“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

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

— 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 poor as…

— Albert Camus

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

“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

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

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

— Albert Camus

“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

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

— 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 one doesn't…

— Albert Camus

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

— Albert Camus

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