I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
ALBERT CAMUSFreedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Live to the point of tears.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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