108 Quotes By Albert Camus


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.
Albert Camus on great

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus on great

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus on great

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus on happiness

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus on happiness

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.
Albert Camus on happiness

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus on history

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus on hope

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus on hope

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus on inspirational

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus on intelligence

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus on intelligence

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus on knowledge

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus on knowledge

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

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.
Albert Camus on life

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.
Albert Camus on life

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus on life

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