Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Albert Camus Quotes
ThoughtLivingMortality We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
WorkRediscoveryArtInspiration A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
PeaceDeathImmortality There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
SolitudeFaithGuidanceDespair Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Non-violenceEternityPhilosophy Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
VirtueRealityMoralityGood and Evil Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
RebellionExistenceLimitsConnection In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
UnityShared ExperienceHumanity In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.
HonestyInner ConflictVulnerability Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
HappinessHarmonyLife But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
FaithGodLife Choices I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
StruggleHappinessPerseveranceFulfillment The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
FaithSteadfastness What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
FreedomSacrificeImmortality Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
FreedomPress A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
JusticeHappinessResilience Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
RebellionJustification Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
PrincipleSacrificeLoveDeath To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
RiskJusticeConsequence After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
LightJoyFreedom I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
DesirePossessionLove The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
BelongingEngagement Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
RevolutionsState Power All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
BooksKnowledgeEducation After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
RevolutionIdeologyConsentRebellion 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.
CrimeJusticeHuman NaturePunishment For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
CreationInner ConflictOrderStruggleNecessity There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
PeaceNon-ViolenceMoralityIntegrity I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
The AbsurdHumanityExistenceConnection The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
StruggleNormalityEffortHidden Battles Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.