Quotes by Albert Camus

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

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

“All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football”

“I dont think its easy, but if we keep on demanding that we need to have it all, then well get there, Im sure. -Julia Stiles”

“If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

“We rarely confide in those who are better than we are”

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

“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing”

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”

“We are all special cases.”

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“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 wasnt everything.”

“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”

“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.”

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

“...There are more things to admire in men than to despise.”

“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible”

“True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person”

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