All Albert Camus Quotes
- The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we… Carry
- Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift… Any
- For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and… Another Life
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains… Acquiring
- Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe.… Air
- Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and… Claim
- To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society… Absolutely
- The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person… Desire
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That… Artist
- To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two… Absolutely
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the… All
- Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our… Absurdity
- Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.… Called
- Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the… Artist
- In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in… Begin
- In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all.… All
- The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and… Armies
- There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being… Anarchy
- Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these… Advance
- Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so… Been
- In order to exist, man must rebel. Exist
- Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. Atheist
- If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. Adapts
- All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. All
- In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst… Agonies