Albert Camus

For a man devoid of fire and food, freedom is a leisurely luxury.
Every job we achieve enslaves us because it forces us to do better.
Success is easy, hard is to deserve success.
   

No one realizes how hard some try to be just to be normal.
I stand guard at the borders of my language.
I wanted people to unite and fight their bad fate, not accepting despair and this troubled world.
My occupation is to write my books, to fight when my people and my people are threatened. That's all.
A person becomes human by what they do not say as much as they say.
To love a person is to be willing to grow old with him.
Being happy alone is something to be ashamed of.
In the heart of a work, an unquenchable sun shines even if it is dark.
I am a writer. My pen, not me, thinks, remembers or encompasses.
All great events, great thoughts have a trivial beginning.
The way to be great is through work and sweat like a genius.
Contemporary political society is a machine for making people unhappy.
My friends, now I'm going to tell you something big. Do not wait for the apocalypse to break, it breaks every day.
If the world was light, there would be no art.
All evil in the world almost always comes from ignorance.
The oldest profession in the world is "selling yourself". Confusing it with "prostitution" is an equally old misconception.
The universe is incompatible and unknowable for man.
The secret of my universe: dreaming of God without being caught in the human desire for immortality.
Philosophy is the modern form of shamelessness.
The nights are not eternal.
True generosity towards the future involves giving up everything in the present.
There is no sun without shadow and it is necessary to know the night.
The need to be right is peculiar to ordinary people.
We slow down to remember, speed up to forget.
Everything I know about life and morality, I learned from football.
Since we are all going to die, when and how is unimportant.
I can endure anything, as long as I feel that intense and exuberant sigh inside me.
Even when we say that everything is meaningless, we are saying something meaningful.
No artist really gives up.
Nothing is as simple as greatness; Because to be simple is to be a little big.
Freedom is the only value in history that has not been lost.
If your faith falls to the ground, your weapon falls to the ground.
A person does not like the side of himself that he tries to hide from himself.
Man is the only creature that tries to give a meaning to himself.
Human, is the only lifeform that rejects what it is.
Neither man nor life is absurd; it is futile, it is random, there is nothing solid; but still have to live.
A person is never completely unhappy.
Unless man is human, humans cannot live like humans.
A person attains real and absolute happiness only once in his life and dedicates the rest of his life to attaining this happiness again.
Man becomes human not by what he says, but by what he does not say.
Man is not entirely guilty because he did not start history, but he is not entirely innocent either because he perpetuated history.
I defend man because I saw him fall.
The best thing one does every day is to decide not to commit suicide.
If you have money, you don't have to work. So it buys time. In this remaining time, he does things that can make him happy. So money buys happiness.
The ideal order for people is the one in which they are happy.
I can't live with people for long. I need some solitude from eternity's share.
Man is the only being that seeks meaning for himself.
In the coldest time of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer inside me.
Evil comes from ignorance.
Happiness is the greatest of victories over the fate that compels us.
What would be the state of justice if there were no chance of happiness?
Once death has become a statistic and government job, world affairs are no longer going well.
There is no freedom for man unless he overcomes the fear of death. But not by suicide. To overcome this fear, it is necessary not to let go. He should be able to die without any resentment, without fear.
Do not go ahead of me, I may not follow you, do not come after me, I may not lead; Walk with me and my friend stayed only.
Freedom is not hope for the future. It is in the 'now' and is in tune with people and the world right now.
Art compels the artist not to be separated from people.
Art, I think, is finding images, forms that will excite the greatest number of people with shared pains and joys.
Art is both a joy and a work of denial.
For example, I say 'my friends', I have no friends anymore, only accomplices. Their number has also increased a lot, all people are my accomplices. You come first. Whoever is with me is first.
Either you live and die with time, or you go out of time for a higher life.
As the creator, I gave life to death itself. This is what I did before I died.
If there is no hopelessness for life, there is no love for life.
Living is a value judgment in itself. To breathe is; is to judge.
I call him a fool who is afraid to enjoy life.
The writer should undertake the following two tasks that make his art great; truth and freedom.
Not everything written can be lived; but one can try to do it.
Our twentieth century is the age of fear. You will say that fear is not a science; but science has its share in this fear.
Realizing that I could not leave my time, I decided to merge with him.