Albert Camus Quotes

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Albert Camus 

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

- 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 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus 

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.

- Albert Camus 

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

- Albert Camus 

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

- Albert Camus 

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

- Albert Camus 

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

- 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 

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

- Albert Camus 

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.

- 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 

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; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

- Albert Camus 

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

- Albert Camus