All Albert Camus Quotes
- Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. Contradiction
- I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. Chorus
- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. Death
- There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing… Accepted
- Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible,… Absolute
- Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. Doe
- The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy. Believe
- When the body is sad, the heart languishes. Body
- In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced. Coerced
- Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied… Art
- The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. Art
- Happiness too is inevitable. Cynicism
- More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything… Alone
- Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned… Cannot Exist
- In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a… Born
- If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us. Begin
- Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean… Anything Maybe
- It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that,… Buried
- We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun,… Blinking
- But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression… All
- How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was… Come Right
- Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Case
- No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which… Children
- Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. Consists
- The truth, as the light, makes blind. Blind