
Albert Camus Quotes1913 - 1960![]() This French Novelist and Playwright has inspired many. Browse these Albert Camus Quotes which are full of words of wisdom. It should also be noted the he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus Friend Quotes | Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully. Albert Camus Fate | I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. Albert Camus, The Plague Greatness | ![]() Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today? Albert Camus Choices | Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus Work | You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus Sharing | Peace is the only battle worth waging. Albert Camus Peace | Before, everyone was like me, and poverty seemed to be utterly natural in this world, but in high school, I learned about comparisons. Albert Camus Diversity | ![]() Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it. Albert Camus Passion | I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. Albert Camus God | Yes, there is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever the difficulties the enterprise may present, I would like never to be unfaithful either to one or the other. Albert Camus Inspirational Quotes | I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. Albert Camus Genius | ![]() I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. Albert Camus, The Fall Forgiveness | Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. Albert Camus Quotes about Life | 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 Happiness Quotes | Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. Albert Camus Wise Quotes | Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. Albert Camus Destiny | ![]() In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus Attitude | 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 Friendship | To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus Quotes about Being Happy | Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. Albert Camus Blessed Quotes | Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Albert Camus Courage | An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts." Albert Camus Doubt | ![]() Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus Generosity | We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. Albert Camus Confidence | You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus Experience | In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus Being Yourself | ![]() 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." Albert Camus New Beginnings | Quotes about Albert Camus:Despite his popular image, strictly speaking Camus was not an existentialist. John Foley, Albert Camus: From the Absurd to RevoltInspirational Sayings | The author of L’Etranger, never forgetting that he was the noted writer Camus, protected his family and private life. Olivier Todd, Albert Camus Family | Camus once confessed he "never recovered" from his harsh and spare childhood. Robert Zaretsky, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life Children | Camus in fact discovered two worlds: one of material poverty, which clung to the spare and tattered family possessions in Belcourt, the other of spiritual wealth, found in the waves breaking in the distance and star-strewn sky sweeping over his head. Robert Zaretsky, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life Wealth | Camus seemed to have everything: youth, good looks, early success (sufficient to evoke jealousy, even bitter jealousy, among some famous contemporaries). Herbert R. Lottman, Albert Camus: A Biography Success | If there is a moment in young Albert's life when his future can be said to have been determined, it is at the age of ten, and in the elementary school classroom of Louis Germain. Germain did not teach him everything he would ever learn, but the master was capable of recognizing an outstanding child and willing to make the effort (great in that time and place) to prepare him for a career. Herbert R. Lottman, Albert Camus: A Biography Future | More Famous Quotes
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