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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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Albert Camus

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Albert Camus

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Albert Camus

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Albert Camus

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Albert Camus

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Albert Camus

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Albert Camus

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Albert Camus

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Albert Camus

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Albert Camus

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Albert Camus

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Albert Camus

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

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