Quotes from Albert Camus

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

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.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.