Albert Camus Quotes About Values

• If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Importance, Ifs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.5, Vintage

• Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

  Albert Camus

  Faces, Youth, Minutes

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

• There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

  Albert Camus

  Solitude, Poverty, Values

  "Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.

• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, Fighting, Evil

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.285, Vintage

• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Travel, Old Habits

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

• Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Truth, Lying

• The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Transcendental, Without God

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Judgment, Breathe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

• La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Lying, Twilight

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