Quotes from Albert Camus
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
- Albert Camus
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.
- Albert Camus
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
- Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- Albert Camus
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
- Albert Camus
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
- Albert Camus
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
- Albert Camus
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
- Albert Camus
I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine
- Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
- Albert Camus
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
- Albert Camus