Quotes from Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
- Albert Camus
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.
- Albert Camus
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- Albert Camus
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
- Albert Camus
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
- Albert Camus
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
- Albert Camus
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
- Albert Camus
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
- Albert Camus
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
- Albert Camus
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
- Albert Camus
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
- Albert Camus
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
- Albert Camus