Albert Camus Quotes

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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.

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

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

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.