Albert Camus on Mental Toughness Quotes

"Anxiety is the fear of being oneself."

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

"One cannot appreciate the light without acknowledging the darkness; understanding despair is necessary to find joy."

"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

"But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill oneself."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"True beauty possesses a quality that feels alien and detached from human concerns."

"Generosity towards the future lies in giving everything to the present."

"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."

"Everything that exalts life at the same time increases its absurdity."

"Man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history; nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it."

"The desire for possession is only another form of the desire to endure."

"To create is to live twice."

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

"The only way to fight the plague is with decency."

"To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion."

"True defiance is not born of hate, but of a profound love for what is being defended."

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

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

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."

"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without asking a clear question."

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

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

"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."

"We must admit that we are all in the same boat, and that the boat is leaking."

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

"Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end."

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation."

"I was at the midpoint of my life, a moment when a man is still young but knows that his youth is gone."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."