All Albert Camus Quotes
- The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to… Alone
- I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can… Believe
- We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he… Accuse
- At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very… Absurd
- There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that… Badly
- There is scarcely any passion without struggle. Any
- The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it Feel
- You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind.… Balance
- But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself. Courage
- I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. Committing
- They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives. Cruel
- When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them… Action
- Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had… Alone
- He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he… Dangerous
- If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. Act
- The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,… Attempts
- Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. All
- There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The… Essence
- What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. Believe
- What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in… Adore
- A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. Funny
- This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the… Absurd
- Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. Anxieties
- The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. Best
- A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the… Best