Albert Camus quotes

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. (Albert Camus)
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
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.
Albert Camus
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
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
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (Albert Camus)
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus
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.
Albert Camus
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. (Albert Camus)
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus