In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — 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
“Only the one who does not know what is life may believe that it is beautiful and easy.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — 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
“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, after all, to say that I have never loved. In my life, I have had at least one great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — 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
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be… — Albert camus Copy Share Image
“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could… — 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
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This world has a higher meaning that transcends its worries, or nothing is true but those worries. One must live with time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What is there more real, for instance, in our universe than a man's life, and how can we hope to preserve it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory…everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. — 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
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are… — 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
