Albert Camus Quotes

Despite the rationalist and even Marxist illusions, the entire history of the world is the history of freedom.

Innocent is the one who doesn't need to explain.

At the beginning of plagues, and when they have ended, there is always some rhetoric. [...] It is at the very moment of misfortune when one becomes accustomed to the truth, that is, to silence.

The great Carthage led three wars: after the first, it still had power; after the second, it was still habitable; after the third, it is no longer on the map.

A man without ethics is a wild beast let loose upon this world.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

The attention span of man is limited and must be constantly spurred on by provocation.

It's false, I know for myself, that love blinds. On the contrary: it makes perceptible what, without it, would not come into existence and yet, is the most real in this world: the pain of the person we love.

What a good and deep feeling it is to gradually detach from everything and everyone who deserve nothing.

The secret of my universe is just to imagine God without the immortality of man.

Who needs mercy, but those who have no compassion for anyone!

Giving makes sense only if one possesses oneself.