Albert Camus

A life, whose purpose is money, is death.

As for myself, I had a lot to say. But I was silent.

Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

I was looked at, but I wasn't seen.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

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

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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

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

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Integrity has no need of rules.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

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.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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.

I don't want to be a genius. I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.

Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?

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

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

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.

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

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

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