Top 500 Albert Camus Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “A man’s 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

102. “To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.”

— Albert Camus

103. “Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.”

— Albert Camus

104. “A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.”

— Albert Camus

105. “It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”

— Albert Camus

106. “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

— Albert Camus

107. “To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”

— Albert Camus

108. “There are plagues, and there are victims, and it’s the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.”

— Albert Camus

109. “After awhile you could get used to anything.”

— Albert Camus

110. “The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”

— Albert Camus

111. “For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”

— Albert Camus

112. “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

— Albert Camus

113. “But what does it mean, the plague? It’s life, that’s all.”

— Albert Camus

114. “The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.”

— Albert Camus

115. “We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”

— Albert Camus

116. “It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

— Albert Camus

117. “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”

— Albert Camus

118. “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

— Albert Camus

119. “The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”

— Albert Camus

120. “All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”

— Albert Camus

121. “The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”

— Albert Camus

122. “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

123. “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

— Albert Camus

124. “In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul.”

— Albert Camus

125. “Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

— Albert Camus

126. “I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.”

— Albert Camus

127. “That’s love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.”

— Albert Camus

128. “The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”

— Albert Camus

129. “There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.”

— Albert Camus

130. “If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

— Albert Camus

131. “Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.”

— Albert Camus

132. “There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”

— Albert Camus

133. “Everything is true, and nothing is true!”

— Albert Camus

134. “Having money is a way of being free of money.”

— Albert Camus

135. “We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”

— Albert Camus

136. “Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.”

— Albert Camus

137. “If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”

— Albert Camus

138. “Everybody knows life isn’t worth living.”

— Albert Camus

139. “Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.”

— Albert Camus

140. “The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.”

— Albert Camus

141. “Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.”

— Albert Camus

142. “Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.”

— Albert Camus

143. “A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

— Albert Camus

144. “Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.”

— Albert Camus

145. “We are all special cases.”

— Albert Camus

146. “Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”

— Albert Camus

147. “Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.”

— Albert Camus

148. “Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.”

— Albert Camus

149. “What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”

— Albert Camus

150. “In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.”

— Albert Camus