Albert Camus Quotes
10 quotes
Albert Camus
French philosopher-writer on absurdity and human dignity
10 Quotes
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
— A Happy Death, Part Two
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
— The Rebel, Part One
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
— The Fall
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.
— Intuitions (a collection of early essays)
There is no love of life without despair about life.
— The Myth of Sisyphus, An Absurd Reasoning
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
— Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
— Return to Tipasa, Summer in Algiers
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
— Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, Letters to a German Friend
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
— The Rebel
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
— Aphorism in The Myth of Sisyphus