Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
ALBERT CAMUSAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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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Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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We are all special cases.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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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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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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