All Albert Camus Quotes
- I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I… Alone
- I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man,… Believe
- Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom Freedom
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions… Called
- He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and… All
- The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it… All
- Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the… Amid
- In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more… All
- Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure. Died
- I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. Everybody
- maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead.… Become Tired
- Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents Adolescents
- And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Beings
- An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. Achievement
- A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. Craving
- At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead. All
- stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves Knack
- He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe Heart
- In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence… All
- O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too,… All
- I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign… Benign
- No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance.… Absolution
- Liberty is the right not to lie. Inspirational
- For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life… All
- I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When… Ambition