Albert Camus
philosopher, author, journalist
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
- Albert Camus
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
- Albert Camus
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Albert Camus
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
- Albert Camus
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
- Albert Camus
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
- Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
- Albert Camus
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
- Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
- Albert Camus
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
- Albert Camus
We are all special cases.
- Albert Camus
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions; therefore it destroys freedom.
- Albert Camus
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
- Albert Camus
Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
- Albert Camus
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
- Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don’t know anything about.
- Albert Camus
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
- Albert Camus