“As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On some evenings it would sadden Jacques to look at them (workers). Until then he had only known the riches and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible Pindar, Pythian iii” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If I ask myself how to judge that this question is more urgent than that, I reply that one judges by the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Well, then I'll die.' Sooner than other people, obviously. But everybody knows that life isn't worth living. And when it came down… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Before her the stars were falling one by one and being snuffed out among the stones of the desert, and each time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But… — 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
