Quotes by Camus, Albert

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

Camus, Albert on absurdity
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"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."

Camus, Albert on despair
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"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."

Camus, Albert on discontent
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."

Camus, Albert on existence   

"You can't create experience. You must undergo it."

Camus, Albert on experience
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"Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face."

Camus, Albert on faces
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"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."

Camus, Albert on fallibility
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."

Camus, Albert on forgiveness   

"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."

Camus, Albert on free will
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows."

Camus, Albert on freedom   

"The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action."

Camus, Albert on freedom   

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

Camus, Albert on freedom
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"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."

Camus, Albert on futility
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"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."

Camus, Albert on giving
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"That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means."

Camus, Albert on ambiguity
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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Camus, Albert on government
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

Camus, Albert on greatness
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"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."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"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."

Camus, Albert on history and historians   

"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are."

Camus, Albert on ideals and idealism
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"Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin."

Camus, Albert on ideology   

"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."

Camus, Albert on ideology   

"More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure."

Camus, Albert on individuality   

"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?"

Camus, Albert on injury
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"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."

Camus, Albert on justice   

"The innocent is the person who explains nothing."

Camus, Albert on innocence   

"There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

Camus, Albert on judgment and judges
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"Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths."

Camus, Albert on life
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"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."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."

Camus, Albert on life
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"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."

Camus, Albert on life   

"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."

Camus, Albert on aristocracy   

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

Camus, Albert on arrogance
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"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."

Camus, Albert on art