Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts… — 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
“A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could… — 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
“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Where is the absurdity of the world? Is it this resplendent glow or the memory of its absence? With so much sun… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How did I picture the life after the grave? I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work… — 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
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 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
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. — 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
