All Albert Camus Quotes
- We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to… Common
- A work of art is a confession. Art
- If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art. Art
- Life should be lived to the point of tears Inspirational
- We have art in order not to die of life. Art
- Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things. Complicate
- The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer… Alone
- Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring. Discovered
- To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the… Better
- The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation Air
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… All
- People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not… Believe
- This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in. Attempt
- One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But… Beings
- Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts… Accept
- What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,… Certain
- I was absent at the moment I took up the most space. Absent
- Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire. Atheist
- The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions. Action
- There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born. Born
- Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim. Eloquent
- The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. End
- The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass. Certain
- The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. Create
- After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation,… All