Albert Camus

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."

"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."

"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"

"Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?"

"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?"This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."