Albert Camus

It is normal to be sad when one is thinking.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

We are all exiles, I tell you, all of us. And it is not always a bad thing.

There are times when the world is so dry and empty that the only thing left is to imagine what one is not.

To be happy, one must be able to forget.

The future is the only transcendence of men.

The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The world is beautiful, and outside there is no salvation.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

One day, when I am no more, I will be remembered as a writer who loved the sun, and the sea, and the earth.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

The only real progress is moral progress.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Man is mortal, that may be; but let us die resisting, and if we die, let us die with the certainty that we have not betrayed justice.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I carry my revolt with me. I carry it in my heart.

The greatest luxury of our lives is to be able to wake up in the morning and not have to think about how we are going to survive.

I know that man is not an end but a means. But it is always an end for someone.

To conquer fate, one must not be afraid of death.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.