Albert Camus Quotes (281 Quotes)

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Accept life, take it as it is Stupid. The means of doing otherwise Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

We are all special cases.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart swell.

) it is the image of this woman, sitting idly be her Algiers window indifferently watching life pass her by. He pities his mother but that is not the same as love. Feeling this detachment, he can begin to understand her unhappiness.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. Its a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.