Albert Camus Quotes

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.