Some popular Quotes of Albert Camus

1. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
2. 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.
3. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
4. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
5. In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
6. Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
7. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
8. The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
9. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
10. A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
11. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
12. Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
13. I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
14. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
15. For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
16. It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
17. In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
18. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
19. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
20. Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
21. Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
22. The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
23. Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
24. There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
25. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.