Albert Camus Quotes About God

• God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  God, Men, Guilt

• ... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

  Albert Camus

  God, Prayer, Hate

• God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

  Albert Camus

  God, Self, Despair

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

  Albert Camus

  God, Should Have, Ifs

• Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

  Albert Camus

  God, Night, Order

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