Albert Camus Quotes

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

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in 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."

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

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

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

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

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

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

"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

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

"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."

"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity."

"Integrity has no need of rules."

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

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

"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."

"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

"There is no love of life without despair of life."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"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."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."

"No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people."

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

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."

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