Famous Albert Camus Quotes

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
-- Albert Camus

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
-- Albert Camus

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
-- Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
-- Albert Camus

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
-- Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
-- Albert Camus

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
-- Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
-- Albert Camus

I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
-- Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
-- Albert Camus

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
-- Albert Camus

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
-- Albert Camus

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
-- Albert Camus

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
-- Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
-- Albert Camus

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
-- Albert Camus

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.
-- Albert Camus