All Albert Camus Quotes
- We call first truths those we discover after all the others. All
- Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all… All
- To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the… All
- The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.… Any
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts… Accompanied
- The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we… Carry
- Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift… Any
- For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and… Another Life
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains… Acquiring
- Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe.… Air
- Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and… Claim
- To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society… Absolutely
- The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person… Desire
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That… Artist
- To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two… Absolutely
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the… All
- Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our… Absurdity
- Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.… Called
- Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the… Artist
- In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in… Begin