Quotes by Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isnt, than live as if there isnt and to die to find out that there is.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

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.

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.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.