Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
ALBERT CAMUSRebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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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 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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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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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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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