I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
ALBERT CAMUSHappiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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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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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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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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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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