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Albert Camus Quotes on Life

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 life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Albert Camus:

    “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

  • Attributed to Albert Camus:

    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

  • Attributed to Albert Camus:

    “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”

  • Attributed to Albert Camus:

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

  • Attributed to Albert Camus:

    “I rebel; therefore we exist.”

  • Attributed to Albert Camus:

    “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”

  • Attributed to Albert Camus:

    “Live to the point of tears.”