Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head.… — 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
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a… — 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
By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when… — 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
The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful… — 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
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into… — 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
