Albert Camus Quotes - Page 5

• The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledge, Creativity, Ideas

  21 Copy quote
• 

  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

  Albert Camus

  Essence, Innocence, Nostalgia

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.105, Vintage

  96 Copy quote

• It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Spiritual, Witty

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

  28 Copy quote

• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence

  27 Copy quote

• The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

  Albert Camus

  Revenge, Best Revenge

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Creating, Order

  53 Copy quote

• If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness And Love, Made, Perceive

  25 Copy quote

• If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Importance, Ifs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.5, Vintage

  45 Copy quote

• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Atheism, Habit

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

  14 Copy quote

• When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

  Albert Camus

  No Hope

  9 Copy quote

• Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Faces, Wonder

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

  27 Copy quote

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Courage, Lying

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

  9 Copy quote

• Art does not tolerate reason.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Doe, Reason

  8 Copy quote

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

  Albert Camus

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

• I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

  Albert Camus

  Sky, Lasts, Knows

  16 Copy quote

• Integrity has no need of rules.

  Albert Camus

  Honesty, Integrity, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

  19 Copy quote

• After awhile you could get used to anything.

  Albert Camus

  Used

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.77, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

• One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Knows, Exaggerated

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.49, Hamilton Books

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Feet, Intelligence, Mind

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

  126 Copy quote

• Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

  Albert Camus

  Art, People, Imagination

  21 Copy quote

• The innocent is the person who explains nothing

  Albert Camus

  Life, Innocence, Innocent

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

  35 Copy quote

• Life should be lived to the point of tears

  Albert Camus

  Tears, Should

  39 Copy quote

• Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Men, Track

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

  42 Copy quote

• The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Prophet, Century

  42 Copy quote

• But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Sometimes

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.54, Vintage

  17 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Jean-Paul Sartre

Franz Kafka

Marguerite Duras

Friedrich Nietzsche

Simone de Beauvoir

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Marcel Proust

Soren Kierkegaard