Peace is the only battle worth waging.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
Don't let them tell us stories
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with oth...
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolute...
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.