Albert Camus Quotes



      “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

       “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


      “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
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       “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” 
- Albert Camus

       “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” 
- Albert Camus

       “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.” 
- Albert Camus

       “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” 
- Albert Camus

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

      “There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.” 
- 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

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

       “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” 
- Albert Camus

      “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.” 
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      “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.” 
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      “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” 
- Albert Camus

       “Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.” 
- Albert Camus

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

       “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
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     “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth” 
- Albert Camus

      “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
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       “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.” 
- Albert Camus,

       “There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
- Albert Camus,

     “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
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       “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
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       “Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.” 
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      “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep” 
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     “The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.” 
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       “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” 
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      “You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.” 
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      “It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.” 
- Albert Camus

     “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.” 
- Albert Camus

       “We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.” 
- Albert Camus

      “A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” 
- Albert Camus

      “To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.” 
- Albert Camus

      “I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.” 
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      “Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.” 
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       “Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.” 
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      “True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.” 
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       “And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.” 
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       “Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.” 
- Albert Camus