Albert Camus Quotes

“We all have a weakness for beauty.”

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

““To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.””

“It is immoral not to tell.”

“To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.”

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

“Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.”

“There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.”

“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.”

“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.”

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

“I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.”

“In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.”

“Why must one love rarely to love well?”

“Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.”

“If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.”

“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.”

“Liberty is the right not to lie.”

“Men die and they are not happy.”

“How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.”

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

“There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.”

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

“I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.”

“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”