Albert Camus offers the kind of clarity that feels like fresh air, even when the subject is difficult. These quotations gather his wit, his edge, and his insistence that meaning can be made, one honest choice at a time.

As he once said, “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

“I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.”

“May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends.”

“I love life, that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”

“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”

“What we call basic truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others. When one has no character one has to apply a method.”

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

“Life is a sum of all your choices.”

“Integrity needs no rules.”

“If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”