“And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. — 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