Albert Camus Quotes

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.

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

Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Live to the point of tears.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

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.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city.

Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.