It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.Albert Camus
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.Albert Camus
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.Albert Camus
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.Albert Camus
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.Albert Camus
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.Albert Camus
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.Albert Camus
