Quotes by Algerian Authors

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
Yasmina Khadra
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Albert Camus
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Albert Camus
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus
If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
Albert Camus
Lord make me chaste - but not yet.
St. Augustine
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
Albert Camus
Poetry is the Devil's wine.
St. Augustine
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
Albert Camus
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
Albert Camus
Poetry is the Devil's wine.
St. Augustine
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
Albert Camus
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Albert Camus
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
St. Augustine
He that is not jealous is not in love.
St. Augustine
Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine
Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.
St. Augustine
Fear that man who fears not God.
Abd-el-Kader
Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.
Albert Camus
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus
This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Faith is to believe what we do not see and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
St. Augustine
Love and do what you like.
St. Augustine
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
We are not certain we are never certain.
Albert Camus