Albert Camus Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose…
— Philip French
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There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence…
— Natasha Lyonne
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Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of…
— Howard Zinn
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Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that…
— Joe Meno
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Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its…
— Jeffrey St. Clair
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating…
— Edwidge Danticat
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To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors,…
— Luke Rhinehart
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Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But…
— David Simon
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As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the…
— James Orbinski
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One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a…
— Gary Reilly
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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted…
— Aberjhani
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Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
— Tom Robbins
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And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not…
— Howard Zinn
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To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to…
— Alain de Botton
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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 Camus
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
— Paul Theroux
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
— Henry Rollins
Who Wrote These Albert Camus Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Albert Camus Quotes as follows: