Albert Camus quotes

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But
we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
Albert Camus

Fate is not in man but around him.
Albert Camus

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
Albert Camus

So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and
do what Christianity never did: Be concerned with the damned.
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

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
Albert Camus

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Albert Camus

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about
what didn't.
Albert Camus

If the world were clear, art would not exist.
Albert Camus

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in
it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.
Albert Camus

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Albert Camus

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from
them.
Albert Camus

A loveless world is a dead world.
Albert Camus

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further
developments, a future, and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have
relationships with other people.
Albert Camus

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
Albert Camus

A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.
Albert Camus

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he
leaves me cold.
Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus

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

With rebellion, awareness is born.
Albert Camus

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.
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

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should
die.
Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

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