All Albert Camus Quotes
- We have to live and let live in order to create what we are. Create
- Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to… Action
- Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate. Fornicate
- I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that… Any
- Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… Absent
- The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but… Affair
- Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. Believe
- Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are… Alive
- Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the… Alienation
- I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. Advertise
- There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade… Air
- Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. Beauty
- After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust… Day
- What is a rebel? A man who says no. Conformity
- Am well. Thinking of you always. Love Always Love
- I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. Capable
- For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering Assert
- I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't. Absolutely
- For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing… Define
- Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him. Free
- Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth Always Go
- I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be… Absurd
- I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well… Always Right
- Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. Beauty
- Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to,… Alone