“Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge… — 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
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The world itself, whose single meaning I do not understand, is but a vast irrational. If one could only say just once:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world… — 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
