Quotes by

Albert Camus

On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born. – 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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.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

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

Its a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of ones life in order not to lose it all. – Albert Camus

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 wasnt everything. – Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurants revolving door. – Albert Camus

Dont believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. – Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isnt, than live my life as if there isnt and die to find out there is. – Albert Camus

Dont walk behind me I may not lead. Dont walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill ones landlady. – Albert Camus

A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus

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

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

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. – Albert Camus

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

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

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. – Albert Camus

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