Quotes by Albert Camus

About Albert Camus:

Albert Camus was a French Nobel Prize–winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Albert Camus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

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.

Albert Camus

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equi...

Albert Camus

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Albert Camus

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

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

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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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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.

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlbert Camus
  • DescriptionFrench author and journalist
  • BornNovember 7, 1913
  • DiedJanuary 4, 1960
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Philosopher; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist; Playwright
  • WorksThe Rebel; A Happy Death; The Fall
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature