Albert Camus Quotes

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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.

We are all special cases.

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. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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 society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.