Quotes By Albert Camus

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

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.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

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.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

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.

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.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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

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.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

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.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.