Albert Camus

Quotes

• “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living...”
• “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am...”
• “...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and str...”
• “Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also ...”
• “A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simpl...”
• “I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it...”
• “The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence...”
• “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking...”
• “որևէ քաղաք ճանաչելու ամենաճիշտ ձևերից մեկն էլ իմանալն է, թե ինչպե՞ս են այնտեղ աշխատում, ինչպե՞ս են սիրում, և ինչպե՞ս են ...”
• “What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something...”
• “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellio...”
• “No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition...”
• “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.”
• “It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
• “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend”
• “How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
• “If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt)”
• “Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
• “You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
• “We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
• “Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
• “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
• “He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
• “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
• “Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?”
• “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
• “Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
• “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
• “Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.”
• “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
• “Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
• “A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
• “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
• “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
• “Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
• “There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
• “Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”
• “Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
• “Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.”
• “Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
• “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
• “Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
• “Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
• “There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.”
• “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
• “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
• “Live to the point of tears.”