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
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.” — 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… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing). — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
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
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
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
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share