Albert Camus Quotes
Albert Camus Quotes
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.
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.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, 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. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Being is good, but getting rich is better…. If the gods had only the riches of men’s adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
our successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their scepticism.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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Albert Camus Quotes about Money
It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Having money is a way of being free of money.
Albert Camus Quotes from The Guest
Men who share the same rooms, soldiers or prisoners, develop a strange alliance as if, having cast off their armour with their clothing, they fraternized every evening, over and above their differences, in the ancient community of dream and fatigue.
I’ll see you off,” Daru said. “No,” said Baldacci. “There’s no use being polite. You insulted me.
Guest “No one in this desert, neither he nor his guest, mattered. And yet, outside this desert neither of them, Daru knew, could have really lived.
Daru felt a sudden wrath against the man, against all men with their rotten spite, their tireless hates, their blood lust.
Albert Camus Quotes about Life
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
Albert Camus Quotes on Existentialism
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the 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.
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.
Albert Camus Quotes on Writing
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
Those who write clearly have readers.
It is immoral not to tell.
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert Camus Quotes the Fall
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
Albert Camus Quotes about Travel
What gives value to travel is fear. It is the 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 … this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing … Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as distraction, in Pascal’s use of the word, takes us away from God. Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
Albert Camus Quotes The Stranger
There is not love of life without despair about life.
I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn’t done that. I hadn’t done this thing but I had done another. And so?
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?” “Yes,” I said.
Albert Camus Quotes on Winter
The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus Quotes Sisyphus
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
Albert Camus Quotes on Happiness
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation
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.
Albert Camus Quotes about War
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
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.
When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.” But though a war may well be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus Quotes on Relationships
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future…
Albert Camus Quotes on Love
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.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
