In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. — 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
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. — 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
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you… — 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
“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have… — 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… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Living with one’s passions amounts to living with one’s sufferings, which are the counterpoise, the corrective, the balance and the price. When… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of… — albert camus Copy Share Image
“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they… — 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
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Only the one who does not know what is life may believe that it is beautiful and easy.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.” — 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
