An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
- Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
- Albert Camus
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
- Albert Camus
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.
- Albert Camus
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
- Albert Camus
I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
- Albert Camus
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
- Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- 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 restaurant's revolving door.
- Albert Camus
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
- Albert Camus
After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
- Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
- Albert Camus
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
- Albert Camus
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
- Albert Camus
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
- Albert Camus
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
- Albert Camus
