Albert Camus
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.Collection: Life
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Good
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.Collection: Alone
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.Collection: Death
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.Collection: Government
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.Collection: Truth
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.Collection: Happiness
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.Collection: War
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.Collection: War
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Integrity has no need of rules.
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.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
We are all special cases.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.Collection: Inspirational
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.Collection: Life Is
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.Collection: Love
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?Collection: Decisions You Make
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 CamusCollection: Summer
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.Collection: Giving
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.Collection: Gratitude
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Collection: Peace
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.Collection: Experience Yourself
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.Collection: Lying
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truthCollection: Inspirational
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.Collection: Time
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,CreationCollection: Happiness
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.Collection: Philosophical
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.Collection: Law