Albert Camus

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"In the depths of midwinter I finally learned there was an invisible summer."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."

- Albert Camus

"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves."

- Albert Camus

"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

"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."

- Albert Camus

"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

"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."

- Albert Camus

"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."

- 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… just be my friend"

- 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… just be my friend."

- 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; just be my friend."

- Albert Camus

"Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"We have art in order not to die of life."

- Albert Camus

"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."

- Albert Camus

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

- Albert Camus

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer"

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

- 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… just be my friend"

- Albert Camus

"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

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

- Albert Camus

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in 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

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

- Albert Camus

"My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… 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. Truly yours, Albert Camus” I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry."

- Albert Camus

"Amid Winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

- Albert Camus

"Life is the sum of all your choices"

- Albert Camus

"In the middle of winter, I, at last, discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay 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

"In the midst of hate, I found there was in me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was within me, an invincible calm… 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

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

- Albert Camus

""Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.""

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men; I owe it to football (soccer)."

- Albert Camus

"Life can be magnificent and overwhelming – that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live."

- Albert Camus

"The only reality is ‘anxiety’ in the whole chain of beings. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man “in whom existence is concentrated.”"

- Albert Camus

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."

- Albert Camus

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower, and every pumpkin a lantern."

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus