Albert Camus on Strength Quotes

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

"I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my liberty, and my passion."

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

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

"In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limit it discovers in itself."

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

"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."

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

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

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

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

"The benign indifference of the universe."

"I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."

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

"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

"There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die, it orients everything."

"I have no taste for anything but the truth."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

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

"We are all special cases."

"The soul's joy lies in the face of the world's beauty."

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

"There is no love of life without despair about life."

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

"Integrity has no need of rules."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"The tragedy is not that man is alone, but that he cannot be so."

"By the time I was twenty-four, I had realized that everyone was a potential assassin."

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."