Quotes by Camus, Albert

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principl >>

We call first truths those we discover after all the others. >>

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

Quotations about Futility

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, a >>

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, >>

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the t >>

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Camus, Albert