Albert Camus

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

Albert Camus

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

Albert Camus

Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football.

Albert Camus

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Albert Camus

False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Albert Camus

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

Albert Camus

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

Albert Camus

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

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Albert Camus