I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. — 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
I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. — 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
“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the… — 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
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is… — 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
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my… — 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
I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love… — 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 certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always… — 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
“This world has a higher meaning that transcends its worries, or nothing is true but those worries. One must live with time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was about to tell him he was wrong to dwell on it, because it really didn't matter. But he cut me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What is there more real, for instance, in our universe than a man's life, and how can we hope to preserve it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory…everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Squeezed against each other in the heavy heat, they were silent...looking toward the home that was expecting them--quiet, perspiring, resigned to this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
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
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
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
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share