Camus, Albert

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"An absurd life is one in which we continue living without ever understanding why."

"I rebel; therefore I exist."

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

"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy that would command your hatred."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"I understand then why people care so little for the dead. It is because death has no continuation."

"Don't walk ahead of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

"The only reasonable thing we can say is that we are not reasonable."

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

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die and find out there is."

"Accepting the absurd does not mean living with blindfolds on."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"The beauty of the world and the grandeur of it appeals to me."

"What does the meaning of life matter, since we are destined to die?"

"Art is the revolt of the individual against the constraints of reality."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

"You can tell an intellectual man by the sound of his voice."

"The artist's triumph consists of his struggles and his victories."

"We are not lovers, we are fighters."

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."

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

"My life has no value unless I can trace paths to something valuable."