All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

- Albert Camus

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.

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

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.

- Albert Camus

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

- Albert Camus

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

- Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

- Albert Camus

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

- Albert Camus

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

- Albert Camus

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.

- Albert Camus

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

- Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

- Albert Camus

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

- Albert Camus

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.

- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays , Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

- Albert Camus

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

- Albert Camus