Quote

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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
Lying
Tell
Truth
Fiction

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
Albert Camus
Image
Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
Albert Camus
Image
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
Albert Camus
Image
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
Albert Camus
Image
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
Albert Camus
Image
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Albert Camus
Image
Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
Albert Camus
Image
... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
Albert Camus
Image
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
Albert Camus
Image
But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
Albert Camus
Image
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Albert Camus
Image
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
Albert Camus
Image
Something must happen that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
Albert Camus
Image
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth
Albert Camus
Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
Albert Camus
Image
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
Image
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
Image
Do you believe in God, doctor? No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
Albert Camus
Image
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
Albert Camus