Albert Camus Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Albert Camus quotes, Albert Camus sayings, and Albert Camus proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus
How unbearable, for women, is a tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. Albert Camus
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. Albert Camus
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning. Albert Camus
Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken. Albert Camus
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. Albert Camus
Life is the sum of your choices. Albert Camus
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. Albert Camus
I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. Albert Camus
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. 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
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. Albert Camus
Every revolutionary end as an oppressor or a heretic. Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no. Albert Camus
Life is the sum of all your choices. Albert Camus
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning. Albert Camus
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. Albert Camus
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. Albert Camus
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. Albert Camus
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. Albert Camus