Albert Camus Quotes

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

Life, Another, Against

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

Life, Give, Away

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

Today, Philosophy, Eternity

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Future, Real, Giving

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

War, Storm, Clouds

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Albert Camus

Continue, Christians, Requires

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus

Death, Daily, Thinking

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert Camus

Experience, Love, Exhausted

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

Men, Destiny, Cry

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

Nature, Law, Same

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

History, Happy, Misery

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

Freedom, Future, Society

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert Camus

Hard, Become, Bitter

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus

Men, Freedom, Die

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus

Understand, Away, Order

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus

Write, Clearly, Readers

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

Evil, Reality, Cannot

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus

Leader, Master, Millions

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus

Cannot, Fate, Scorn

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Good, Society, Today

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert Camus

Nothing, Him, After

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus

Either, Becoming, Ends

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

Hope, Fool, Human

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert Camus

Again, Once, Order

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7, 1913

Died: January 4, 1960

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