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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotations by Albert Camus

Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Albert Camus (1913–60) was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay “The Rebel” that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual and sexual freedom.

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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

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities … And above all, accept these things.
—Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
—Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise… that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
—Albert Camus
Topics: Beauty

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
—Albert Camus

Charm is… a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
—Albert Camus

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

We are all exceptional cases. Each man insists on being innocent, even if it means accusing the whole human race, and heaven.
—Albert Camus
Topics: Virtue

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
—Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
—Albert Camus

There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
—Albert Camus

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
—Albert Camus

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
—Albert Camus
Topics: Happiness

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus

My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury of our history: Let us rejoice. Let us rejoice, indeed, at having witnessed the death of a lying and comfort-loving Europe and at being faced with cruel truths.
—Albert Camus

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
—Albert Camus

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
—Albert Camus

Life is the sum of all your choices.
—Albert Camus

We all carry within us our prisons.
—Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus
Topics: Fear, Anxiety

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

Integrity has no need of rules.
—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

There’s no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
—Albert Camus

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
—Albert Camus
Topics: Reading, Books

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
—Albert Camus
Topics: Death

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
—Albert Camus
Topics: Work

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