All Albert Camus Quotes
- Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Ironic
- It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion. Body
- It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. Demand
- I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of… Bad
- The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. Been
- For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I… Accepting
- Murder is terribly exhausting. Exhausting
- Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… Dare
- The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute… Absolute
- History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. Analysis
- Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the… Assurance
- One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. Coherent
- Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to… Admirable
- No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. All
- In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. Called
- To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be… Always Provides
- Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. Contrary
- This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. Absurdity
- The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. Duration
- So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. All
- What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never… All
- Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert. All
- To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. Breathe
- Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. Anxious
- Without freedom there is no art. Art