Albert Camus Quotes

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

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

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

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

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

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Don`t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don`t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

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

What is a rebel? A man who says no

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

It`s no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn`t, than live my life as if there isn`t and die to find out there is.

Don`t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don`t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person

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

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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.

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.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn`t, than live my life as if there isn`t and die to find out there is.