Top 500 Albert Camus Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”

— Albert Camus

252. “At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”

— Albert Camus

253. “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

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

— Albert Camus

255. “The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.”

— Albert Camus

256. “Happiness too is inevitable.”

— Albert Camus

257. “No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

263. “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

264. “Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

266. “Liberty is the right not to lie.”

— Albert Camus

267. “The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.”

— Albert Camus

268. “The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.”

— Albert Camus

269. “I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.”

— Albert Camus

270. “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

271. “No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren’t worse makes a failure of his or her life.”

— Albert Camus

272. “The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”

— Albert Camus

273. “The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

275. “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

276. “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

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

— Albert Camus

278. “Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.”

— Albert Camus

279. “God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.”

— Albert Camus

280. “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

281. “A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.”

— Albert Camus

282. “To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.”

— Albert Camus

283. “You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You’re judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don’t like the sentence.”

— Albert Camus

284. “Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.”

— Albert Camus

285. “Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”

— Albert Camus

286. “Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

288. “Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.”

— Albert Camus

289. “Some are created to love, while the others – to live.”

— Albert Camus

290. “Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future...”

— Albert Camus

291. “Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”

— Albert Camus

292. “Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux.”

— Albert Camus

293. “I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”

— Albert Camus

294. “Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

296. “It’s not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.”

— Albert Camus

297. “Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

299. “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

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

— Albert Camus