Albert Camus

"What would life be without hope? What would hope be without fear?"

"The good man is not the one who never falls, but the one who rises each time he falls."

"Living is easy with eyes closed."

"The task of genius is to make the impossible possible."

"Suffering is not a value in itself; it may be a path to awareness."

"I want everything explained to me or nothing."

"A man has as much need for fear as he has for hope."

"Greatness consists in the will to be great."

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf becomes a flower."

"The future is the only kind of property that the poor have."

"All that remains is creation."

"At the heart of all beauty lies some secret, some mystery that ought to move us."

"There is but one freedom, that of the mind."

"Whoever despairs of the human condition is a coward, but whoever has hope for it is a fool."

"To be free is to be responsible for yourself and to no one else."

"The struggle against power is the struggle against injustice."

"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."

"We are brothers through the absurd."

"Martyrdom does not change anything."

"It is a mistake to say that hope is based on any kind of evidence."

"There is always some madness in love, as there is always some reason in madness."

"War is a way of life if one accepts the absurdity of existence."

"History does not teach fatalism."

"Nothing is given to mortals, everything must be earned."

"All healthy men have thought of their own suicide."

"Integrity has no need of rules."

"Passion is as bad as addiction."

"The only true progress lies in learning to work with what one has."

"I have often had the impression that it was life that wanted to use me, not the other way around."

"To express oneself genuinely is an act of courage."