Top 500 Albert Camus Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

257. “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

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

— Albert Camus

259. “Those who write clearly have readers.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

267. “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

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

270. “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

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

— Albert Camus

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Albert Camus

275. “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

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

279. “Happiness too is inevitable.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

281. “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

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

284. “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

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

— Albert Camus

286. “Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.”

— Albert Camus

287. “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

288. “A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

290. “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

291. “To create is to live twice.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

294. “On ne comprend pas le destin et c’est pourquoi je me suis fait destin.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

299. “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

300. “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