Albert Camus Quotes on Happiness
Albert Camus was a 20th-century French philosopher, novelist, and journalist, born in French Algeria, who developed the philosophical position known as absurdism. This page collects quotes attributed to Albert Camus on the topic of happiness, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Original French: La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur d'homme; il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux. | Variant translation: The fight itself towards the summits suffices to fill a heart of man; it is necessary to imagine Sisyphus happy. -
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. A Happy Death (written 1938), first published as La mort heureuse (1971), as translated by Richard Howard (1972)”
Nous nous trompons toujours deux fois sur ceux que nous aimons: d'abord à leur avantage, puis à leur désavantage. -
“Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”
Absurd Creation -
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness , too, is a long patience .”
A Happy Death(written 1936-38 (published in 1971, over 11 years after the author's death))