Albert Camus Quotes
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But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.
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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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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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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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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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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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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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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.