Albert Camus

"There is a courage in facing down evil, even if you achieve nothing by it."

"The struggle is enough to occupy a man's heart; one must imagine Sisyphus happy."

"I believe that one should neither surrender nor return evil for evil."

"The most absurd, most indomitable of human passions is hope."

"A man who says he has committed a crime is not necessarily guilty; he may be mad."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

"Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; without it there is only numbness."

"Madness is to think of all humanity and to make a savior of oneself."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide: judging whether life is or is not worth living."

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

"The only way to control my fears is to acknowledge them."

"Heroism and weakness are two facets of the same medal."

"Power without morality is tyranny."

"Health and intelligence are the only things that make a man truly happy."

"Money is only a tool; it can take you wherever you wish, but it cannot replace you as the driver."

"War is a confession of defeat."

"One's life is defined by one's response to the absurdity of existence."

"An artist must be free of his material, not enslaved by it."

"The only way to escape the absurd is to embrace it."

"We are dying and we are killing one another; the question becomes, why?"

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head."

"Science could not solve the most important question of human existence."

"To correct a natural indolence I have always forced myself to work hard."

"One can imagine Sisyphus climbing the mountain with joy in his heart."

"Each generation thought it could change human nature, and in this each generation is deceived."

"The only real problem is how one can be content to live."

"To be free is to be without rank, money, and good clothes."

"Thousands of people have decided not to be sad."

"The wind comes from the oceans and sweeps over the land in great waves."