Prison Quotes by Albert Camus

9 Prison quotes by Albert Camus

Albert Camus’ existential musings on imprisonment are distilled into nine concise reflections, providing a quick, thought‑provoking taste of his philosophy.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

“So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in…

Albert Camus

Image

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He…

Albert Camus

Image

“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or…

Albert Camus

Image

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red…

Albert Camus

Image

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them…

Albert Camus

Image

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to…

Albert Camus

Image

“And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out of memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized…

Albert Camus

Image

“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious…

Albert Camus

Image

“The hearing was adjourned. For a few brief moments, as I left the Law Courts on my way to the van, I…

Albert Camus

Image

Other authors on Prison

More 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

Image

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

Albert Camus

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

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

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

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

Image

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

Albert Camus

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

Image

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

Albert Camus

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