Albert Camus

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

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― 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

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth"
― Albert Camus

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
― 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, The Stranger

“We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
― Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― 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

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

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

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert Camus 



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


“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling.
Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.” 
― Albert Camus, The First Man: Le Premier Homme


“Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.”
― Albert Camus


“...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.” 
― 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


“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
― Albert Camus