Albert Camus Quotes
+46Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
+8Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
- Albert Camus
+7But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
+2Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
+1Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
+1You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
- Albert Camus
+1All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
- Albert Camus
+1The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
- Albert Camus
+1Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- Albert Camus
+1I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
- Albert Camus
+1Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non violence.
- Albert Camus
+1Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus
+1God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery is.
- Albert Camus
+1Wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
- Albert Camus
+1If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
- Albert Camus
+1Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- Albert Camus
+1An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus
+1Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- Albert Camus
+1Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
- Albert Camus
+1Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
- Albert Camus
+1By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus
+1Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
- Albert Camus
+1Integrity has no need of rules.
- Albert Camus
+1As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
- Albert Camus
+1You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus
+1A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
- Albert Camus
+1Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
- Albert Camus
+1If all the world were clear, art would not exist.
- Albert Camus
+1Peace is the only battle worth waging.
- Albert Camus
+1There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
+1I don’t want to be a genius – I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
- Albert Camus
0Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus
0Life is absurd.
- Albert Camus
0We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
- Albert Camus
