| "Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day." Albert Camus Sayings |
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| "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." Albert Camus Remarks |
| "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." Albert Camus Quotes |
| "Live to the point of tears." Albert Camus |
| "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." Albert Camus Quotations |
| "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 mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity." Albert Camus Remarks |
| "Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." Albert Camus |
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| ...There are more things to admire in men than to despise. Albert Camus Sayings |
| A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus |
| A friend is the little prize in the cereal box of life. Albert Camus |
| A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus |
| A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus |
| A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. Albert Camus Quotations |
| A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. Albert Camus Quotes |
| A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. Albert Camus |
| A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing Albert Camus Quotes |
| Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. Albert Camus |
| After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Albert Camus Adages |
| After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. Albert Camus Remarks |
| After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason Albert Camus |
| All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Albert Camus Adages |
| All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football Albert Camus |
| An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. Albert Camus Quotes |
| An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus |
| As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. Albert Camus Adages |
| As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness! Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| 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 denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Remarks |
| Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower Albert Camus Adages |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus |
| Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. Albert Camus Sayings |
| But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus |
| Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. Albert Camus |
| Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world. Albert Camus Remarks |
| Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. Albert Camus Quotations |
| 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 |
| Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus |
| Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus |
| Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus |
| Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. Albert Camus |
| Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian Albert Camus |
| 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 equilibrium. Albert Camus |
| For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it , it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers...This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. Albert Camus |
| Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus Adages |
| Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. Albert Camus |
| Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. Albert Camus Quotes |
| God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shall hear, among the uproar of empires and nations, the faint fluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Each and every one, on the foundations of their own suffering and joy builds for all. Albert Camus |
| Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. Albert Camus |
| Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Albert Camus |
| He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool Albert Camus |
| He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. Albert Camus Adages |
| History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. Albert Camus |
| History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. 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 Quotes |
| How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. Albert Camus Sayings |
| How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong! Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man Albert Camus |
| I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. Albert Camus |
| I know of only one duty, and that is to love Albert Camus Quotations |
| I know of only one duty, and that is to love. Albert Camus |
| I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| I love my country too much to be a nationalist. Albert Camus Quotes |
| I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. Albert Camus Sayings |
| 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. 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 Remarks |
| 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 Quotes |
| I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. Albert Camus Adages |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| 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 Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus Sayings |
| If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. Albert Camus |
| If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. Albert Camus |
| In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. Albert Camus Sayings |
| In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. Albert Camus Quotes |
| In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion Albert Camus Adages |
| In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| 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. Albert Camus Adages |
| In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus Quotes |
| In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus |
| In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. Albert Camus |
| In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus Quotes |
| In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer Albert Camus |
| In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus |
| It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. Albert Camus |
| It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison. Albert Camus |
| It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature. Albert Camus |
| It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus |
| It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus |
| It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus |
| It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough Albert Camus Sayings |
| Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Life is a sum of all your choices. Albert Camus |
| Life is the sum of all your choices. Albert Camus |
| Listen, Tar, ... This is the real problem: whatever happens, I shall always defend you against the firing squad. But you will be obliged to approve my being shot. Think about that. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus |
| Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Albert Camus Sayings |
| Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never. Albert Camus Remarks |
| May I take the ridiculous position of saying that I do not like the was [Andre] Gide exalts the body. He asks it to restrain its desire to make it keener. Thus he comes dangersouly near to those who in brothel slang are called involved or brain-workers. Christianity also wants to suspend desire. But, more natural, it sees a mortification in this. My friend Vincent, who is a cooper and junior breast-stroke champion, has an even clear veiw. He drinks when he is thirsty, if he desires a woman he tries to go to bed with her, and would marry her if he loved her (this hasn't yet happened). Afterward he says: "I feel better"-- and this sums up vigorously any apology that might be made for satiety. Albert Camus Remarks |
| Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. Albert Camus Remarks |
| Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus |
| Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus Sayings |
On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born. Albert Camus Adages |
| Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. Albert Camus Quotations |
| People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. Albert Camus |
| Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this? Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. Albert Camus Remarks |
| Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. Albert Camus |
| 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 really realistic a description would have to be endless. Albert Camus Sayings |
| Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. Albert Camus |
| Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. Albert Camus Sayings |
| Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. Albert Camus |
| The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to Albert Camus |
| The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world. Albert Camus Remarks |
| The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. Albert Camus Quotations |
| The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus Remarks |
| The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. Albert Camus |
| The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Albert Camus |
| The innocent is the person who explains nothing Albert Camus Quotes |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus Quotes |
| The need to be right ? the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus Remarks |
| The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus Sayings |
| The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. 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 Remarks |
| The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. Albert Camus |
| The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all Albert Camus |
| The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. Albert Camus |
| The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| The truth, as the light, makes blind. Albert Camus Quotes |
| The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus |
| There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. Albert Camus Adages |
| There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus Quotes |
| These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze. Albert Camus Quotes |
| To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. Albert Camus Adages |
| To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. Albert Camus Adages |
| To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others Albert Camus |
| To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus Popular Quotes |
| To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. Albert Camus |
| To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Albert Camus Quotations |
| 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. Albert Camus Quotations |
| To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. Albert Camus Adages |
| To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? Albert Camus |
| To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first Albert Camus Adages |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus |
| True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. 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 |
| Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Albert Camus |
| Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. Albert Camus |
| We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. Albert Camus Quotations |
| We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Albert Camus |
| We are all special cases. Albert Camus |
| We call first truths those we discover after all The Others. Albert Camus |
| We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| We rarely confide in those who are better than we are Albert Camus |
| We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible 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, that it is inside ourselves. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible. Albert Camus |
| What is a rebel? A man who says no Albert Camus |
| What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. Albert Camus Remarks |
| 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 mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. Albert Camus |
| When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter. Albert Camus Remarks |
| 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. Albert Camus Quotations |
| Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin. Albert Camus |
| 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. Albert Camus |
| Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus |
| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus Sayings |
| You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus |
| You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus |
| You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. Albert Camus |
| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. Albert Camus Sayings |
| 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 will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus Adages |
