Albert Camus quotes

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Don't wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Albert Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love, first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Albert Camus

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Albert Camus

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood, never.

Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

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.

Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Albert Camus

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Albert Camus

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.

Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus