Quote

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

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
Arrogance
Simplicity
Thought
Truth
Something
Good
Men
Plenitude
Superman

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
Albert Camus
Image
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. Yes, he replied. The path of sympathy.
Albert Camus
Image
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
Albert Camus
Image
Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
Albert Camus
Image
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
Albert Camus
Image
One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
Albert Camus
Image
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Albert Camus
Image
For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
Albert Camus
Image
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
Albert Camus
Image
These are facts the heart can feel yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
Albert Camus
Image
At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
Albert Camus
Image
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
Albert Camus
Image
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
Albert Camus
Image
You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
Albert Camus
Image
One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
Albert Camus
Image
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
Albert Camus
Image
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
Albert Camus
Image
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
Albert Camus
Image
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
Albert Camus
Image
I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.
Albert Camus