Albert Camus, طاعون Quotes

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.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

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

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

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

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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

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

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

Find your happiness in yourself.

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

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

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.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

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.

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

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

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.

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

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

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

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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

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

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.