A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. — 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
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was about to tell him he was wrong to dwell on it, because it really didn't matter. But he cut me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Question: how can one manage not to lose time? Answer: experience it at its full length. Means: spend days in the dentist's… — 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
“Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of… — 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
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
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — 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
