Albert Camus Quotes

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
-Albert Camus

"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."
-Albert Camus

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."
-Albert Camus

"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
-Albert Camus

"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. 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

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
-Albert Camus

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

"Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian."
-Albert Camus

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."
-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 in Life quotes.

"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."
-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 in Living quotes.

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
-Albert Camus in Autumn quotes.

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
-Albert Camus

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

"Live to the point of tears."
-Albert Camus

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."
-Albert Camus

"A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."
-Albert Camus

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

"If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus ."
-Albert Camus

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
-Albert Camus in Charm quotes.

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

"There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence."
-Albert Camus

"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
-Albert Camus

"There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
-Albert Camus

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
-Albert Camus in Charm quotes.