Albert Camus Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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

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.

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

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

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