Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy a...
Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked t...
What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps.Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?Comprehension.
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absol...
Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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...
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
L'habitude du desepoir est pire que le desespoir lui-meme.
I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
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
He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage
But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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...
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.