The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSShould I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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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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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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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 like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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