FAMOUS QUOTES BY CAMUS

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

“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.”

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

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”

“Life is the sum of all our choices.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

“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.”

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“There is no love of life without despair of life.”

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.”

“There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide.”

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

“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.”

“Live to the point of tears.”

“You will never be loved if you think you cannot be loved.” GRIEVING QUOTES FOR SISTER

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

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

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

“Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it’s hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting.”

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

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

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason.”

“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”

“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”

“Real generosity towards the future consists in giving all to what is present.”

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

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

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