All Albert Camus Quotes
- It is better to burn than to disappear. Better
- Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness… Blinding
- If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. Any
- My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was,… Albert
- To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing. Amounted
- After awhile you could get used to anything. Awhile
- Everything is true, and nothing is true! Existentialism
- ... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. Alive
- But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But… Been
- This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try… Assurance
- It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep… All
- The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. Century
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. Acquiring
- I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. Felt
- he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while. Anything Really
- One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know. Exaggerated
- I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with… Alive
- She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater… Aware
- But above all, in order to be, never try to seem. All
- I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere. Double
- You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so… All
- Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it. Anger
- In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. Another Without
- It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. Any
- Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. Happiness