All Albert Camus Quotes
- God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. Cure
- Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in… Destiny
- Integrity needs no rules. Ethics
- Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal. Infernal
- That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3 Away Everything
- We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. Infinite
- Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. Cannot Prevent
- A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously. All
- The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. Absurd
- What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which… Another Power
- Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. Capital
- Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. Consolation
- It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. Always Recognize
- A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted. Accepted
- The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. Anti
- Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the… Calculated
- Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. Dove
- Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of… Arithmetically
- If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I… Christianity
- The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to… All
- Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. Actual
- If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage… All
- Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. Balance
- The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies… Aging
- In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality… Each