Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How did I picture the life after the grave? I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Where is the absurdity of the world? Is it this resplendent glow or the memory of its absence? With so much sun… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts… — 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
“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
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work… — 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, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — 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
“Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — 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
