I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live… — 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
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too… — 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
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass… — 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
![“maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would…” quote by Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b50/albert-camus-47_forget_maybe-she-had-become-tired-of-being-the_1499730.jpg)
