Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. — 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
“Everyone gives much more and the receipts are considerable. Typical of American generosity. Their hospitality, their cordiality are like that too, spontaneous… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A love that does not bear collision with reality is not a real love. But then the inability to love is a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Rieux knew what the old man was thinking at that moment as he wept, and he thought the same: that this world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Indeed the Here and Now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. — 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