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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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Albert Camus

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Albert Camus

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. Bu...

Albert Camus

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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

Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Albert Camus

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Albert Camus

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Albert Camus

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Albert Camus

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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We are all special cases.

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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