Albert Camus Quotes
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
By : Albert Camus
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
By : 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.
By : Albert Camus
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
By : 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.
By : 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.
By : Albert Camus
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.
By : Albert Camus
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
By : Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
By : Albert Camus
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
By : Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
By : Albert Camus
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
By : Albert Camus
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
By : Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
By : Albert Camus
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
By : 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.
By : Albert Camus
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
By : Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
By : Albert Camus
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
By : 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.
By : Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
By : Albert Camus
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
By : 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.
By : 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.
By : Albert Camus
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
By : Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
By : Albert Camus