All Albert Camus Quotes
- But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation.… Cocktail
- That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. Cher
- Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or… Boredom
- What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What… Ask
- My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people. Disappointed
- But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. Common
- It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep,… According
- By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one… Action
- Finally, and most of all, words failed him. All
- I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine Always Think
- And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied… All
- Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this… Absurd
- Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories,… Acquired
- Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence Cheap
- Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life,… Alibi
- You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What… All
- Yes, I'm happy, in human terms. Happy
- Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves. Inspirational
- If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on… Absurd
- People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone.… Age
- Existence is illusory and it is eternal. Eternal
- The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since… Crush
- Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world. All
- how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for! Cut
- Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time. All