“When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When we are all guilty, that will be democracy. Not to mention the fact that we must be revenged for having to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Well, then I'll die.' Sooner than other people, obviously. But everybody knows that life isn't worth living. And when it came down… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yesterday it was love. Today the great passions of unity and liberty disrupt the world. yesterday love led to individual death. Today… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“but he was afraid of being insincere and telling lies in the presence of death. It was on a fine winter’s day,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Not that one must be an animal, but I find no meaning in the happiness of angels. I know simply that this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“None of this fits together? How very true! A woman you leave behind to go to the movies, an old man to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores… — 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
