Albert Camus

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

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

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

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.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Live to the point of tears.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

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

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

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

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

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 bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

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

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.

In the midst 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.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

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

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

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.

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

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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.

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