Albert Camus Quotes

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

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

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.