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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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Albert Camus

When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.

Albert Camus

So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.

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

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Albert Camus

Having money is a way of being free of money

Albert Camus

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his vi...

Albert Camus

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

Albert Camus

Paris est un vrai trompe-l'oeil, un superbe décor habité par quatre millions de silhouettes.

Albert Camus

Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have been ...

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Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Albert Camus

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

Albert Camus

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Albert Camus

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Albert Camus

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

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There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Albert Camus

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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Don't let them tell us stories

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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