Top 500 Albert Camus Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”

— Albert Camus

252. “Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.”

— Albert Camus

253. “Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.”

— Albert Camus

254. “Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”

— Albert Camus

255. “Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.”

— Albert Camus

256. “We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.”

— Albert Camus

257. “I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.”

— Albert Camus

258. “The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”

— Albert Camus

259. “On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.”

— Albert Camus

260. “I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?”

— Albert Camus

261. “No, Father, I’ve a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.”

— Albert Camus

262. “Death means nothing to men like me. It’s the event that proves them right.”

— Albert Camus

263. “It is better to burn than to disappear.”

— Albert Camus

264. “I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”

— Albert Camus

265. “I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.”

— Albert Camus

266. “If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.”

— Albert Camus

267. “If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”

— Albert Camus

268. “I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine.”

— Albert Camus

269. “I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.”

— Albert Camus

270. “A lot of jobs don’t allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.”

— Albert Camus

271. “I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”

— Albert Camus

272. “I would like to be able to breathe – to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”

— Albert Camus

273. “Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”

— Albert Camus

274. “I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”

— Albert Camus

275. “I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L’Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”

— Albert Camus

276. “One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn’t know.”

— Albert Camus

277. “Happiness too is inevitable.”

— Albert Camus

278. “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”

— Albert Camus

279. “Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn’t want, after all.”

— Albert Camus

280. “A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”

— Albert Camus

281. “Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.”

— Albert Camus

282. “Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.”

— Albert Camus

283. “Of course, true love is exceptional – two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”

— Albert Camus

284. “Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.”

— Albert Camus

285. “There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.”

— Albert Camus

286. “Some cry: ‘Love me!!’ Others: ‘Don’t love me!!’ But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: ‘Don’t love me and be faithful to me!!’”

— Albert Camus

287. “It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

— Albert Camus

288. “To create is to live twice.”

— Albert Camus

289. “Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.”

— Albert Camus

290. “We’re going forward, but nothing changes.”

— Albert Camus

291. “Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.”

— Albert Camus

292. “Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”

— Albert Camus

293. “And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”

— Albert Camus

294. “I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.”

— Albert Camus

295. “Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.”

— Albert Camus

296. “I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.”

— Albert Camus

297. “I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.”

— Albert Camus

298. “Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.”

— Albert Camus

299. “When the body is sad, the heart languishes.”

— Albert Camus

300. “Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”

— Albert Camus