All Albert Camus Quotes
- We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. Better
- Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? Essential
- Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. Assert
- Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. Able
- Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. Admirable
- Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. Artist
- Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. Every Time
- Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. Accessible
- I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. Accepting
- I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. All
- I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. Able
- I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in… Began
- Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. Amount
- No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Attacks
- The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. Absurd
- The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. Cease
- The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. Condemn
- There is no love of life without despair of life. Despair
- To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. Everyone
- Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. Both
- We call first truths those we discover after all the others. All
- Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all… All
- To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the… All
- The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.… Any
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts… Accompanied