108 Quotes By Albert Camus


We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert Camus on life

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus on life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus on life

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

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus on love

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus on love

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert Camus on love

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus on love

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus on love

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus on love

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus on men

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus on men

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus on men

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

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus on money

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus on motivational

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus on movingon

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.
Albert Camus on music

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