Quotes by Albert Camus

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.