Quotes by Albert Camus

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.

— Albert Camus

Friendship

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.

— Albert Camus

Happiness

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

— Albert Camus

Education

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

— Albert Camus

Life

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

— Albert Camus

Happiness

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

— Albert Camus

Love

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

— Albert Camus

Wisdom

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

— Albert Camus

Wisdom

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

— Albert Camus

Courage

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.

— Albert Camus

Life

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

— Albert Camus

Love

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

— Albert Camus

Life

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

— Albert Camus

Life

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

— Albert Camus

Love

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.

— Albert Camus

Happiness

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

— Albert Camus

Courage

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.

— Albert Camus

Life

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

— Albert Camus

Wisdom

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

— Albert Camus

Wisdom

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

— Albert Camus

Freedom

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.

— Albert Camus

Success

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

— Albert Camus

Happiness

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

— Albert Camus

Wisdom

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

— Albert Camus

Freedom