And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves. — 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
Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot… — 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
It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — 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… — 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
“Thinking is learning all over again to see, to be attentive, to focus consciousness; it is turning every idea and every image,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Every man has felt himself to be the equal of a god at certain moments. But this comes from the fact that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How wonderful that must be! What we call spring here is one rose and a couple of buds struggling to keep alive… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Somebody has to have the last word. Otherwise, every reason can be answered with another one and there would never be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Our old Europe at last philosophizes in the right way. We no longer say as in simple times: 'This is the way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And when one day Rambert told him that he liked waking up at four in the morning and thinking of his beloved… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The hearing was adjourned. For a few brief moments, as I left the Law Courts on my way to the van, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“STEPAN: Innocence? Yes, maybe I know what that means. But I prefer to shut my eyes to it—and to shut others’ eyes… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He had never loved anything except what was inevitable. The people fate had imposed on him, the world as it appeared to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone… — 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