Albert Camus Quotes

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

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

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

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

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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

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.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.