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Albert Camus Quotes

Total quotes: 51
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall
Tagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, strength, Achievement, Bravery, Courage
“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Thinking, Thoughts, How We Live
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: Self-Awarenes, Certainty, Passion, Interest
“The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
Tagged: Life, self, losing oneself, Motivational, Self Esteem
“Whoever gives nothing has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1951-1959(Volume 3)
Tagged: Generosity, kindness, Love & Happiness
“I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start.”
— Albert Camus, The Plague
Tagged: New Beginnings, Letting Go, Moving Foward
“We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942(Volume 1)
Tagged: Existence, Encouragement, Relationship
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Tagged: Deep, Life
“If it were sufficient to love, things would be too easy. The more one loves, the stronger the absurd grows.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Love
“I am on your side. But you have no way of knowing it, because your heart is blind.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: Blind To Love, Missing Out On The Best Thing, Bad Heart, Rejecting Love, Sad
“But that’s love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.”
— Albert Camus, The Just
Tagged: Love, Sacrifice, Giving everything, Desire
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Tagged: Depression, Inspirational, Summer, Surfing, strength, Finding Yourself, Self love, Spilled Ink
“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: Indifference, Reflections, Spirituality
“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon the world.”
— Albert Camus, Albert Camus Quotes: Albert Camus, quotes, quotations, famous quotes
Tagged: Ethics, humanity
“I love all or I love nothing. Hence it is that I love nothing.”
— Albert Camus, Albert Camus Notebooks 1935-1951
Tagged: Life, Philosophy
“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: Life, struggles, Numbness, Existentialism, getting used to
“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”
— Albert Camus, The Possessed
Tagged: Relationships
“There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
— Albert Camus, 100 Quotes About Suicide
Tagged: Suicide, Suicidal
“The sea: I didn’t lose myself in it; I found myself in it.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1942-1951
Tagged: Sea, Finding Yourself, found self, Soul Searching, soul found, Reflection, Self & Identity, self awareness, self
“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1951 - 1959
Tagged: Solitude, Me Time, Quality Time
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: World, Human Existence, World Views, indifference of the world, Indifference, world and humanity, Reality, Uniqueness, human affairs, Acceptance
“I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Tagged: Philosophy
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
— Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Tagged: Refusal, Acceptance, Denial, Mankind, Human Nature
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
— Albert Camus, Autumn
Tagged: Autumn, october, Fall, Happiness
“I ask people more than they can give me.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Tagged: favor, Asking for more, Return
“But can’t you, if only for a minute, just let yourself go?”
— Albert Camus, Words N Quotes
Tagged: Letting Go, Self-Trust
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall
Tagged: Happiness, Self-Love, Enjoy Less
“We do not need to reveal ourselves to others, but only to those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give. There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary. I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Tagged: Solitude, Loneliness, Alone, Openness, Suffering
“Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity.
Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and secrecy.
The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
Tagged: Existentialism, Life
“I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: New Beginning, Reflection, fresh start, realization
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
— Albert Camus
Tagged: Writing, civilization, writer
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
— Albert Camus, Albert Camus and Education
Tagged: act, Rebellion, Express, expression, Nostalgia, Innocence, Appeal, Essence, Being, Life, Living
“I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall Vintage Edition
Tagged: Communication, Deep, Thought
“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, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Tagged: Passions, interests, Dreams, Living, Discovering Love, Discovering Yourself, Experience, Life
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1951-1959
Tagged: Life, Tragedy, Losing Hope
“The surge his body made when he considered living longer–even though it would bring him back to the same place–contemplating death.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: Life, Death
“I’m happy when I feel your presence in my life…I can never write often or much, but I want you to trust me, and I want to press you against me.”
— Albert Camus, Albert Camus: A Life
Tagged: Happiness, Presence, Togetherness, Trust, Desire, Intimacy
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay On Man In Revolt
Tagged: Wanderlust, Freedom, Rebellion
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, How To Think, Awareness
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Absurdity, Absurd, No Answer From The World
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