Albert Camus quotes
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. 
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. 
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. 
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep 
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 
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. 
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. 
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion 
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. 
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. 
You can't create experience, you undergo it. 
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. Albert Camus Life quotes ⇑
Life Quotes
Live to the point of tears. 
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. 
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. All Albert Camus quotes ⇑
Man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
In the middle of winter, I found in me an invincible summer
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
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.
I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
The most important thing you do every day you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
