There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Actually the contents of these books mattered little. What did matter was what they first felt when they went into the library,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What I'm sure of is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
