Top 500 Albert Camus Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.”

— Albert Camus

302. “It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.”

— Albert Camus

303. “More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

305. “A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

— Albert Camus

306. “To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.”

— Albert Camus

307. “A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”

— Albert Camus

308. “A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

— Albert Camus

309. “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

310. “And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.”

— Albert Camus

311. “I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”

— Albert Camus

312. “Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.”

— Albert Camus

313. “All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

315. “But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don’t really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”

— Albert Camus

316. “Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

318. “Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”

— Albert Camus

319. “Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren’t dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.”

— Albert Camus

320. “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

321. “She was waiting, but she didn’t know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.”

— Albert Camus

322. “In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

324. “When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

326. “Knowing we all gonna die makes life a joke.”

— Albert Camus

327. “The innocent is the person who explains nothing.”

— Albert Camus

328. “A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”

— Albert Camus

329. “In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.”

— Albert Camus

330. “Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.”

— Albert Camus

331. “My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.”

— Albert Camus

332. “Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom.”

— Albert Camus

333. “Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

335. “Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”

— Albert Camus

336. “O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

337. “It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.”

— Albert Camus

338. “Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.”

— Albert Camus

339. “Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”

— Albert Camus

340. “From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.”

— Albert Camus

341. “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

342. “There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.”

— Albert Camus

343. “I’d buy myself a cabin on the beach, I’d put some glue in my navel, and I’d stick a flag in there. Then I’d wait to see which way the wind was blowing.”

— Albert Camus

344. “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

345. “Finally, and most of all, words failed him.”

— Albert Camus

346. “That’s the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can’t love without self-love.”

— Albert Camus

347. “Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.”

— Albert Camus

348. “The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.”

— Albert Camus

349. “The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth, but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.”

— Albert Camus

350. “We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”

— Albert Camus