Quote

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

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
Guilty
Guilt
Shame
Responsible
Ones
May
Persons

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
Albert Camus
Image
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert Camus
Image
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
Albert Camus
Image
False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.
Albert Camus
Image
This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus
Image
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
Albert Camus
Image
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
Albert Camus
Image
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
Albert Camus
Image
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
Albert Camus
Image
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.
Albert Camus
Image
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus
Image
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
Albert Camus
Image
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
Albert Camus
Image
The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
Albert Camus
Image
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
Image
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
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 for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
Albert Camus