Camus Quotes

33 Camus quotes by 30 unique authors

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has… — Rollo May
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… — Unknown Author
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
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer
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
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche — Richey Edwards
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
About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some… — Robert Kennedy
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
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
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. — Stokely Carmichael
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing… — Jessica Pare
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
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them,… — Elie Wiesel
A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre. — Craig Ferguson
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau,… — Patti Smith
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
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist.… — Ahdaf Soueif
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
The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed. — David Levithan

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