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Albert Camus Quotes

Albert Camus

French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

Nationality: French
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Type: Novelist
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Birth: 1913-1960
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that dense
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibri
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the me
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
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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
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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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 one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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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.
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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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, that it is inside ourselves.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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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 with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
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