“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus Quotes
1913 – 1960
French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and Nobel laureate (1957), author of 'The Stranger' and 'The Myth of Sisyphus', known for his philosophy of the absurd.
36 quotesAbout Albert Camus on Wikipedia
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.”
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.”
“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.”
“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”
“There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.”