Albert Camus Quotes

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.

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.

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

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

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

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

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world — and to pay attention to man.

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

I'm glad to know he's [Paneloux] better than his sermon.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate – for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

He kept the middle way, that's all: he was the type of man for whom one has an affection of the mild but steady order - which is the kind that wears best.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.