Inspiration Quote by Albert Camus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill beyond all remedy. The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can an armistice for a mother bereaved of a son or for a man who buries his friend.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.”

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

“he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.”

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”

“He is able who thinks he is able.”

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

“We must become the change we want to see.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”