Top 500 Albert Camus Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”

— Albert Camus

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2. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

— Albert Camus

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3. “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.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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5. “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

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6. “Life is the sum of your choices.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

9. “I rebel; therefore I exist.”

— Albert Camus

10. “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

13. “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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15. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

Featured in: Life Quotes, Winter Quotes

16. “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

— Albert Camus

17. “Life should be lived to the point of tears.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

19. “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

20. “There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”

— Albert Camus

21. “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

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22. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”

— Albert Camus

23. “Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”

— Albert Camus

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24. “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

26. “People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

— Albert Camus

27. “I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Featured in: Soul Quotes, Suffering Quotes

29. “Yes, everything is simple. It’s people who complicate things.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

31. “Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it’s meaningless.”

— Albert Camus

32. “Find your happiness in yourself.”

— Albert Camus

33. “You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

— Albert Camus

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34. “An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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35. “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”

— Albert Camus

36. “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

— Albert Camus

37. “We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream, and we won’t let this world die without a fight.”

— Albert Camus

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38. “The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”

— Albert Camus

39. “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

— Albert Camus

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40. “For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.”

— Albert Camus

41. “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”

— Albert Camus

42. “This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.”

— Albert Camus

43. “Integrity has no need of rules.”

— Albert Camus

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44. “But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”

— Albert Camus

45. “There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.”

— Albert Camus

46. “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

— Albert Camus

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47. “One cannot be a part-time nihilist.”

— Albert Camus

48. “There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

— Albert Camus

49. “There is no shame in preferring happiness.”

— Albert Camus

50. “Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.”

— Albert Camus