Quote

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
Author
Essayist
French Resistance Fighter
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Professor
Screenwriter
Writer
Drean
Camus
Understanding
Experience
Cannot
Must
Minimalist
Undergo
Create

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
Albert Camus
Image
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
Image
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus
Image
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
Albert Camus
Image
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday I can't be sure.
Albert Camus
Image
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
Albert Camus
Image
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
Albert Camus
Image
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
Albert Camus
Image
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
Albert Camus
Image
The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
Albert Camus
Image
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
Image
Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
Albert Camus
Image
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Albert Camus
Image
Finally, and most of all, words failed him.
Albert Camus
Image
Art does not tolerate reason.
Albert Camus
Image
The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.
Albert Camus
Image
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
Albert Camus
Image
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Albert Camus
Image
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
Albert Camus