72 quotes by Albert Camus

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.” — Albert Camus

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“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.” — Albert Camus

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“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.” — Albert Camus

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“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.” — Albert Camus

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“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.” — Albert Camus

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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.” — Albert Camus

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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.” — Albert Camus

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“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.” — Albert Camus

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“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

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

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“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.” — Albert Camus

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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.” — Albert Camus

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“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.” — Albert Camus

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“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” — Albert Camus

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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.” — Albert Camus

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“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.” — Albert Camus

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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.” — Albert Camus

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“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” — Albert Camus

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“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” — Albert Camus

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“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.” — Albert Camus

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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.” — Albert Camus

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“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.” — Albert Camus

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“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.” — Albert Camus

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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” — Albert Camus

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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.” — Albert Camus

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