Albert Camus on Wisdom Quotes

"To create is to live twice."

"We are all special cases."

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

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

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

"The struggle toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart; we must imagine the struggle itself as a source of happiness."

"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."

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

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

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of."

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

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

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

"Friendship is less simple than love; it is long and hard to obtain, but when one has it, there is no getting rid of it."

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

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

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

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."

"Judgment is not a distant event; it is a constant process happening in our daily interactions."

"If the world were clear, art would not exist."

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

"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."

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

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

"The search for truth often leads to uncomfortable places, distinct from the search for comfort."

"The act of artistic creation allows us to experience life with double the intensity."

"True friendship is difficult to forge, but once established, it is an unbreakable bond."

"You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

"My individual act of rebellion establishes a common ground, proving that our existence is a shared reality."

"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which contains the absurd, there is a desire for clarity."

"It is a normal thing to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."

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