The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. — 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
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — 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
