Quotes by Albert Camus

111 quotes by Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Quote about love

Without freedom there is no art, art lives only through its constraints, constraints which are impose by it and dies if other constraints appear.

Quote about liberty, art, magic

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Quote about opinion, press, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Quote about art, confession, conscience, magic, work

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Quote about humans, world, man

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Quote about humans, art, magic, heart, nothing, work, man

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Quote about truth, nothing

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Quote about art, magic

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.

Quote about education, books, day, knowledge

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, while those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Quote about opinion, risk, nothing

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Quote about philosophy, day, god

After a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Quote about humans, age, olderness, face, man

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Quote about philosophy, deeds, beginning

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

Quote about politics, state, power

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Quote about opinion, mind

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Quote about reality, city, society, immortality, life

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Quote about humans, defects, numbers, things, man

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Quote about opinion, face, man

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

Quote about nature, autumn, spring

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Quote about beauty, despair, eternity, time