Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel. Camus was born in Algeria to French Pieds Noirs parents. Profoundly inspirational Albert Camus quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Albert Camus Quotes
If time frightens us, this is because it works out the problem and the solution comes afterwards.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. Albert Camus
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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. Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Albert Camus
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
We are all special cases. Albert Camus
Having money is a way of being free of money.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. Albert Camus
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question. Albert Camus
Autumn is the second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative. Albert Camus
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.
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. Albert Camu
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.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. Albert Camus
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. Albert Camus
Live to the point of tears.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. Albert Camus
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is. Albert Camus
One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
A loveless world is a dead world.
Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
There is no love of life without despair of life. Albert Camus
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus
You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus
If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up.
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. Albert Camus
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence. Albert Camus
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Albert Camus
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Albert Camus
To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. Albert Camus
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
The place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Albert Camus
Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules.
I know of one duty, and that is to love. Albert Camus
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don’t know anything about.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Albert Camus
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
There is not love of life without despair about life.
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend.
Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
We are all special cases.
Live to the point of tears.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
