Quotes from Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
- Albert Camus
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
- Albert Camus
How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
- Albert Camus
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
- Albert Camus
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
- Albert Camus
The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.
- Albert Camus
The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.
- Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
- Albert Camus
You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
- Albert Camus
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
- Albert Camus