Quotes by Albert Camus

He was a novelist, philosopher, journalist, essayist of French-Algerian origin. Although known primarily for his novels and philosophical works, Camus was also a man of the theatre. He worked at various times as actor, director, playwright and translator for the stage. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Camus was closely linked to his friend existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in the 1940s, but he broke with him over Sartre's support to Stalinist politics. Camus died at the age of forty-six in a car accident near Sens, France. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century.
(1913-1960)

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
-Albert Camus

“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”
-Albert Camus

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.”
-Albert Camus

“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.”
-Albert Camus

“I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”
-Albert Camus

“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
-Albert Camus

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

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
-Albert Camus

“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”
-Albert Camus

“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
-Albert Camus

“We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”
-Albert Camus

“We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.”
-Albert Camus

“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
-Albert Camus

“Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.”
-Albert Camus, Caligula

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
-Albert Camus, Happy Death

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
-Albert Camus, L'Homme revolte (The Rebel), 1951

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
-Albert Camus, La Chute (The Fall),1956

“He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.” -Albert Camus, The Rebel (1951)