“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future. Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I know. I’m sorry. But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. — 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
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the reasons of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I can't agree; he's incapable of suffering for a long time,or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable… — 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… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there… — 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
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end… — 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
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Question: how can one manage not to lose time? Answer: experience it at its full length. Means: spend days in the dentist's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“From time to time I meet people who live among riches I cannot even imagine. I still have to make an effort… — 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
“In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“in the strange dizziness of that moment, the statue every man eventually erects and that hardens in the fire of the years,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live… — 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
