"On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or...
After awhile you could get used to anything.
More Albert Camus quotes
"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
"I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectab...
"If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
"Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack...
"The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessaril...
"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and r...
"We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.
"Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad abou...
"Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!
"I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in e...
"Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capab...
"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge,...
"A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can ha...