Albert Camus Quotes

I said this world was absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Consciousness is seeing absurdity

Real generosity toward the future consists to giving all to what is present.

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

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.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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.

Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

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

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

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.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

Whatever Prevents You From Doing Your Work Has Become Your Work

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

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

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.