من بیشتر با شکست یافتگان احساس همدردی میکنم تا با مقدسین. گمان میکنم که من قهرمانی و تقدس را زیاد نمیپسندم. آنچه برایم جالب است انسان بودن است.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what...
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
There is not love of life without despair about life.
There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not th...
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terribl...
Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still t...
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We live on the future: tomorrow, later on, when you have made your way, you...
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, wi...
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
As they left, the girls were choking with laughter, but once they reached Mersault's house and the cool shade of the rooms, which emphasized the dazzling whiteness of the sun-drenched garden walls, th...