Albert Camus Quotes
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.
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You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
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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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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.