The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
ALBERT CAMUSI rebel; therefore I exist.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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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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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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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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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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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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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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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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