Quotes by Albert Camus

Don’t walk behind me I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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.

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.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.