Albert Camus

"I understood then that there is no position for me to take in this struggle; I had nothing to do with it; I hadn't made this absurd world."

"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."

"In the absence of hope, one can remain dignified."

"You must imagine Sisyphus happy."

"The only rebel who is free is the one who is free to do nothing."

"I sometimes think that a person is here on earth to take up space and reproduce itself before dying."

"It is enough to say that belief in nothing is nothing."

"To lose one's life is a small price for refusing to admit defeat."

"The mind's deepest desire is to comprehend the world."

"I love human beings for their defects."

"A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it."

"Caligula: What saves me is that I'm not in the habit of hoping."

"In order to be an immortal you have to be dead."

"That's all I need to say. The world is absurd and human beings are precious."

"Can one cry when listening to a song? Probably only if one is a human being."

"All that counts is the moment of transition from life to death."

"In the context of the absurd, a man's existence is preceded by a sort of halo."

"I tell you that justice doesn't make sense, but neither does life, and we know we must live."

"True insight begins when you stop taking yourself seriously."

"I know of a man who killed himself because he could not get anything done in the time allowed him."

"One's deeds are one's monumental record."

"The divine is in the moment."

"What I know about mortality, I owe to Sisyphus."

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change."

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle."

"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, in the blur of the heat haze they kick up, what strange patience into age."

"Art embraces the world like an infinite dream."

"One learns one's lines by heart and one swears by them."

"After Plato, to be is to think."

"Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control."