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
“But if that is what it meant to win the game, how hard it must be to live only with what one… — 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
“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the reasons of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. — 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
“This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart. The most destitute men often end up by accepting illusion. That approval… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing… — 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