All Albert Camus Quotes
- There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want… Able
- Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Fatal
- She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked… Apparent
- The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. Ability
- When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. Develops
- At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at… Actually Liked
- Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses… Accept
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the… Afterwards
- Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. Hope
- It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are… Beaten
- Art and revolt will die only with the last man. Art
- His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything. Acknowledging
- Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. Absurd
- If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its… History
- It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end. Almost Impossible
- They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. All
- Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is… All
- Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart… Among
- We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us. Dream
- Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. Fiction
- There is no frontier between being and appearing. Appearing
- ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,… Better
- Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish.… Aided
- I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to… All
- It is immoral not to tell. Immoral