The Best Albert Camus quotes

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. — Albert Camus

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus

Without freedom there is no art. — Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst. — Albert Camus

Freedom is the right to never have to lie. — Albert Camus

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities. — Albert Camus

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man’s awareness of it. — Albert Camus

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses. — Albert Camus

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. — Albert Camus

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne…Oh no! It’s a…long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting. — Albert Camus

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. — Albert Camus

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. — Albert Camus

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

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences–all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn’t feel it. — Albert Camus

If it were sufficent to love, things would be too easy. — Albert Camus

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus

The act of love is a confession. — Albert Camus

I love my country too much to be a natIonalIst. — Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. — Albert Camus

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. — Albert Camus

A pure love is a dead love. — Albert Camus

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy. — Albert Camus

I know of only one duty, and that Is to love. — Albert Camus

There is not love of life without despair about life. — Albert Camus

The loves we share with a city are often secret loves. — Albert Camus

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love — Albert Camus

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love. — Albert Camus

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. — Albert Camus

Friendship often ends in love but love in Friendship––never. — Albert Camus

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated. — Albert Camus

Some are created to love, while the others–to live. — Albert Camus

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. — Albert Camus

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. — Albert Camus

One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus

I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start. — Albert Camus

Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. — Albert Camus

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy. — Albert Camus

There’s the risk of being loved…and that would keep me from being happy. — Albert Camus

One cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this. — Albert Camus

Yes, I’m happy, in human terms. — Albert Camus

If 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

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. — Albert Camus

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. — Albert Camus

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature. — Albert Camus

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way. — Albert Camus

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future. — Albert Camus

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race. — Albert Camus

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. — Albert Camus

The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe. — Albert Camus

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. — Albert Camus

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

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history. — Albert Camus

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself. — Albert Camus

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, ‘less. — Albert Camus

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless. — Albert Camus

It’s better to bet on this life than on the next. — Albert Camus

But what does it mean, the plague? It’s life, that’s all. — Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. — Albert Camus

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them. — Albert Camus

Everybody knows life isn’t worth living. — Albert Camus

Life is a sum of all your choices’. So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him. — Albert Camus

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art. — Albert Camus

Life is the sum of your choices. — Albert Camus

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. — Albert Camus

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus

Life is a story and god is author.Life is absurd.I think so. — Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. — Albert Camus

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — Albert Camus

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people. — Albert Camus

As in all religions, man is freed of the weight of his own life. — Albert Camus

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you. — Albert Camus

A loveless world is a dead world. — Albert Camus

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. — Albert Camus

If the world were clear, art would not exist. — Albert Camus

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. — Albert Camus

When a conscious being appeared, the world went blank. — Albert Camus

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one’s own world, which comes to the same thing). — Albert Camus

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. — Albert Camus

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. — Albert Camus

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. — Albert Camus

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty. — Albert Camus

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. — Albert Camus

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world. — Albert Camus

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. — Albert Camus

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — Albert Camus

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non–violence. — Albert Camus

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. — Albert Camus

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! — Albert Camus

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence. — Albert Camus

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

I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God. — Albert Camus

We don’t have time to be ourselves. We only have time to be happy. — Albert Camus

One cannot be a part–time nihilist. — Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can’t be sensible all the time. — Albert Camus

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. — Albert Camus

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead. — Albert Camus

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus

The play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered. — Albert Camus

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it. — Albert Camus

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. — Albert Camus

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

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. — Albert Camus

I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger. — Albert Camus

It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague–time. — Albert Camus

To state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise. — Albert Camus

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. — Albert Camus

Of course, true love is exceptional–two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. — Albert Camus

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. — 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. — Albert Camus

That’s why I like you so much. Your heart isn’t dead. — Albert Camus

There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart. — Albert Camus

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing. — Albert Camus

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man. — Albert Camus

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman. — Albert Camus

When the body is sad, the heart languishes. — Albert Camus

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. — Albert Camus

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness. — Albert Camus

I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart. — Albert Camus

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL. — Albert Camus

She was waiting, but she didn’t know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart. — Albert Camus

No,’ Rambert said bitterly, ‘you can’t understand. You’re using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of… of abstractions. — Albert Camus

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable. — Albert Camus

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy. — Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. — Albert Camus

And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death. — Albert Camus

It is not true that the heart wears out–but the body creates this illusion. — Albert Camus