Albert Camus Quotes About Life

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

• I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

• People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

• 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

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

• There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Dying, Causes

• I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, World, Existentialism

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

• Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Truth, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Deceived Us

  "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Beauty, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

• Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Summer

• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Want, Happens

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Suicide, Courage

• 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

  Life, Tragedy, Easy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hate, War

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Success, Humor

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Courage, Lying

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

• A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Truth, Passion

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

• ...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Despair, Habit

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Art, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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