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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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

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

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. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Albert Camus

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Albert Camus

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

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Albert Camus

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Albert Camus

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

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

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Nature quotes by Albert Camus, UberQuotes

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

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

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