Quotes from Albert Camus
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
- Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- Albert Camus
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
- Albert Camus
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
- Albert Camus
The absurd is sin without God.
- Albert Camus
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
- Albert Camus
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
- Albert Camus
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
- Albert Camus
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
- Albert Camus
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
- Albert Camus
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
- Albert Camus