Quotes by 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.”

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering”

“Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happ...”

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of priso...”

“Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.”

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”

“There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“Gula and Cali lie on their sides, their tiny adder-mouths showing the pink of their palates, their bodies throbbing with lustful and obscene dreams. The sky releases its burden of sun and color. Ey...”

“What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.”

“From the olive-strewn forum, one could see the village down below. Not a sound came from it; wisps of smoke rose in the limpid air. The sea also lay silent, as if breathless beneath the unending sh...”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“Live to the point of tears.”

“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”

“What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.”

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”

“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”