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Albert Camus Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“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
“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
“Every summer morning seems to be the first in the world. Each twilight seems to be the last, solemn agony, announced at sunset by a final glow that darkens every hue. The sea is ultramarine, the road the color of clotted blood, the beach yellow. Everything disappears with the green sun; an hour later the dunes are bathed in moonlight. Then there are incomparable nights under a rain of stars.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Nature, Stars, beauty, Summer, Summer Morning, Twilight, Dunes, Sunset
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall
Tagged: Death, skepticism, Suffering
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.”
— Albert Camus, Beyond Survival
Tagged: Albert Camus, Friendship, Love
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Melodrama, Suicide, Death, Killing Yourself
“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall
Tagged: An Introverted Mind
“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
“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
“Why does everybody expect of me what no one expects of anyone else? Why must I endure what no one endures and accept burdens that no one could carry?”
— Albert Camus, The Possessed
Tagged: Expectations, Martyr, Frustration, Hypocrisy
“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Conscious, What You Are Saying, What You Mean
“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 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
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Tagged: beauty, Colours, Overwhelming Beauty
“Mother died today.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: first lines of books
“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Tagged: Hope, Psychology, perseverance
“She was wearing a pair of my pyjamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: Love, Lust, Friends
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but steal some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.’”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1951 - 1959
Tagged: An Introverted Mind
“Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening. At the end of the awakening comes, in time, the consequence: suicide or recovery. In itself weariness has something sickening about it. Here, I must conclude that it is good. For everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything except through it.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Weariness, Recovery, Consciousness
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