To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. — 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
“February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to… — 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
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image