Quotes from Albert Camus

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.