Albert Camus Quotes About Mankind

• Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Greatness, Destiny

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

• The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

  Albert Camus

  Fighting, History, Prestige

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.139, Vintage

• The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

  Albert Camus

  Mistake, Believe, Heart

• Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Men, Decision

  Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.18, Princeton University Press

• 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

• Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Suffering, Cry

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