Absurd Quotes by Albert Camus

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

— Albert Camus

The absurd is sin without God.

— Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

— Albert Camus

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

— Albert Camus

“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future. Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.”

— Albert Camus

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

— Albert Camus

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

— Albert Camus

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

— Albert Camus

“A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.”

— Albert Camus

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

— Albert Camus

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

— Albert Camus

“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is…

— Albert Camus

“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign…

— Albert Camus

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is…

— Albert Camus

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation.…

— Albert Camus

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid…

— Albert Camus

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet…

— Albert Camus

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued…

— Albert Camus

“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign…

— Albert Camus

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the…

— Albert Camus

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great…

— Albert Camus

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be…

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees…

— Albert Camus

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has…

— Albert Camus

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has…

— Albert Camus

“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from…

— Albert Camus

Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to…

— Albert Camus

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

— Albert Camus

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will…

— Albert Camus

“It is a matter of persisting. At a certain point on his path the absurd man is tempted. History is not lacking…

— Albert Camus

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything…

— Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that…

— Albert Camus

“Likewise, if Kafka wants to express the absurd, he will make use of consistency. You know the story of the crazy man…

— Albert Camus

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

— Albert Camus

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

— Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

— Albert Camus

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

— Albert Camus

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could…

— Albert Camus