Camus, Albert

"Suicide is a confession. It is a confession to the effect that life is too much for you."

"The causes I believe in make me lose my mind a little."

"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."

"I don't need to believe in myself. I need to believe in something."

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

"In the middle of winter I at last discovered there was in me an invincible summer."

"There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic."

"The real passion of our time is politics."

"A man who would plant a tree is someone to be trusted."

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

"Democracy is sustained by three things: freedom of word, freedom of thought, and freedom to keep one's mouth shut."

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence."

"We are bound to our limits and unable to exceed them, yet all the same bound to exceed them."

"If something is going to change, let it come from within."

"The only real progress is moral progress."

"The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner."

"Once we have accepted the basic absurdity of life, everything else is easy."

"The moment we recognize the absurd, we must imagine Sisyphus happy."

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

"There is no love without jealousy."

"A free person is one whose heart is free."

"All I know is that one must do something and that seems to be enough."

"To lose one's life is a small price to pay for never losing one's life."

"The only real progress lies in learning to live."

"We are dying and we know it, but we live as if we didn't."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The risk of life is that a man might find out too late that he never lived."

"Murder is not a crime in the eyes of a machine."

"Every person who dies unhappy is conditioned by life."

"What is a man? If he is just a collection of particles, then he is nothing."