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Albert Camus
Quotes by Albert Camus
Quotes by Albert Camus
“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Camus
“Integrity has no need of rules.”
Albert Camus
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
Albert Camus
“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”
Albert Camus
“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Albert Camus
“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
Albert Camus
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
Albert Camus
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Albert Camus
“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
Albert Camus
“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
Albert Camus
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Camus
“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
Albert Camus
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
Albert Camus
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
Albert Camus
“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Albert Camus
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
Albert Camus
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
Albert Camus
“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.”
Albert Camus
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”
Albert Camus
“Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.”
Albert Camus
“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
Albert Camus
“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
Albert Camus
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”
Albert Camus
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
Albert Camus
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
Albert Camus
“We are all special cases.”
Albert Camus
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
Albert Camus
“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
Albert Camus
