Albert Camus Quotes

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

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

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, and be my friend.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.