Albert Camus

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

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.

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.