Quote

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

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
Living
Stills
Still
Men
Generated
Craving
Independence
Freedom
Hope

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.
Albert Camus
Image
Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
Albert Camus
Image
After awhile you could get used to anything.
Albert Camus
Image
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
Albert Camus
Image
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
Albert Camus
Image
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus
Image
No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
Albert Camus
Image
I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
Albert Camus
Image
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
Image
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus
Image
I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
Albert Camus
Image
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus
Image
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
Albert Camus
Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
Albert Camus
Image
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
Albert Camus
Image
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
Albert Camus
Image
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
Albert Camus
Image
And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.
Albert Camus
Image
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Albert Camus