Albert Camus Quotes

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

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.

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

Don’t wait for the judgment of others. Be your own judge and you will endure happiness.

To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Living is keeping the absurd alive.

An age is called ‘dark,’ not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

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

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The purpose of man is not happiness, but meaning.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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

Don’t wait for the judgment of others. Be your own judge and you will endure happiness.

To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Living is keeping the absurd alive.

An age is called ‘dark,’ not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

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

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The purpose of man is not happiness, but meaning.