People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“People, who suffer from sadness and suddenly become happy, betray themselves: they stick to happiness, as if to hug, and strangle it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have… — 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
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park,… — 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
