Quotes from Albert Camus
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
- Albert Camus
It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
- Albert Camus
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
- Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
- Albert Camus
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
- Albert Camus
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
- Albert Camus
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
- Albert Camus
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
- Albert Camus
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
- Albert Camus
We are all special cases.
- Albert Camus
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
- Albert Camus