Albert Camus quotes

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

— Albert Camus

“Integrity has no need of rules.”

— Albert Camus

“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”

— Albert Camus

“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”

— Albert Camus

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”

— Albert Camus

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— 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

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

— Albert Camus

“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”

— Albert Camus

“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

“Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.”

— 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... inside ourselves.”

— Albert Camus

“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”

— Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”

— Albert Camus

“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”

— Albert Camus

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

— Albert Camus

“We are all special cases.”

— Albert Camus

“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 only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”

— Albert Camus