83 result(s) for Albert Camus Quotes.
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"You will never be loved if you are not lovable."
"Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day."
"Real rebels are rare."
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."
"There is not love of life without despair about life."
"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."
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"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
"Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world."
"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
"Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves."
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
"Live to the point of tears."
"There is no love of life without despair of life."
"I rebel; therefore I exist."
"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."
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
"Life can be magnificent and overwhelming—that is its whole tragedy."
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"One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it."
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
"Don't wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day."
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
"We rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee from them."
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
"Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage."
"If the world were clear, art would not exist."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
"Almost all our actions are based on the fear of being humiliated."
"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."
"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."
"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."
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"Life is a sum of all your choices."
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
"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."
"In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm."
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
"I rebel, therefore I exist."
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle."
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
"Nostalgia is not what it used to be."
"The desire to have power over others is a disease in our souls."
"The only way to deal with the unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep."
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."
"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day."
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
"Don't walk in front of me... I may not follow. Don't walk behind me... I may not lead. Walk beside me... just be my friend."
"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."
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
"Life is the sum of all your choices."
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
"Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny."
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
"There is no such thing as a love affair that lasts forever, but there are great moments that can be relived forever."
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with happiness."
"This is the day when we must take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them."
"War is the most effective way to ignite the spirit of humanity."
"The fight for freedom is the greatest struggle of all."
"To create is to live twice."
"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable."
"The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
"Men are capable of being in love with a great number of women, but the intensity of it does not last forever."
"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle."
"We are all special cases, even whether we have ordinary lives or extraordinary destinies."
"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth."
"Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil."
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