Albert Camus

(1780 votes)   Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(354 votes)   Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(313 votes)   That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(301 votes)   To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(278 votes)   God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(259 votes)   Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(224 votes)   At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(146 votes)   To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(137 votes)   Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(136 votes)   The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(113 votes)   Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(112 votes)   To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(107 votes)   The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(104 votes)   The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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