25 Life Quotes of Albert Camus

1. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
2. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
3. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
4. He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
5. A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
6. There is no love of life without despair of life.
7. All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
8. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
9. 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.
10. The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
11. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
12. As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
13. Integrity has no need of rules.
14. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
15. What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
16. Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
17. The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
18. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
19. The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
20. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
21. Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
22. 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.
23. It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
24. No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
25. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.