30 quotes by Albert Camus to ponder wisely

You cannot create experience. You have to go through it.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow you. Don’t walk behind me, I can’t lead you. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

And perhaps the day will come when, to the disgrace and teaching of men, the plague wakes up the mice and sends them to die in a happy city.

Blessed are the flexible hearts; for they will never be broken.

Man is the creature who, in order to affirm his being and his difference, denies.

Not being loved is bad luck, but not loving is unhappiness itself.

True generosity towards the future lies in giving everything to the present.

I no longer want to be happy, but just to be aware.

Life is meaningless, but it’s worth living, as long as you recognize that it doesn’t make sense.

What is happiness beyond simple harmony between man and the life he leads?

The effort to reach the top alone is enough to complete a man’s heart.

Man has two faces: he cannot love anyone if he does not love himself.

The absurd is lucid reason that recognizes its limits.

Love a person is wanting to grow old with her.

There are always reasons for death, but it is impossible to justify life.

When I look for what is fundamental in me, it is the taste of happiness that I find.

How hard it must be to live only with what you know and remember, deprived of what you expect.

There always comes a time when you have to choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

Stupidity always persists.

How many crimes are committed because their authors do not admit to being wrong!

Man is nothing in himself. It’s just an infinite probability. But he is infinitely responsible for this probability.

We are responsible for what we do, what we don’t do and what we prevent from being done.

And in the middle of a winter I finally learned that there was an invincible summer inside me.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Misery keeps me from believing that all is well under the sun.

I’ll tell you a big secret, my dear. Don’t wait for the final judgment. It takes place every day.

I don’t want to be a genius… I have enough problems trying to be a man.

Success is easy to obtain. The difficult thing is to deserve it.

Politics is made up of men without ideals and without greatness.

Artists think according to words and philosophers according to ideas.