... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the… — 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
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they… — 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
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such… — 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
“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
