Albert Camus Quotes

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

Murder is not absolved of immortality by committing murder. Murder is absolved of immorality by bringing men to think that murder is not evil. This only the perversion of the mind can bring about. And the perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

I'll let you go. If you stay.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

Inaction counted as a choice.

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

You are free, but you have to choose. An open oven bakes no bread

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.