“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“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.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
“Live to the point of tears.”
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]”
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
“I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
“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.”
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“You can't create experience, you undergo it.”
“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.”
“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane or static life, the long anguish of living or dying. After so many years running from fear, fleeing crazily, uselessly, she was finally coming to a halt. At the same time she seemed to be recovering her roots, and the sap rose anew in her body, which was no longer trembling. Pressing her whole belly against the parapet, leaning toward the wheeling sky, she was only waiting for her pounding heart to settle down, and for the silence to form in her. The last constellations of stars fell in bunches a little lower on the horizon of the desert, and stood motionless. Then, with an unbearable sweetness, the waters of the night began to fill her, submerging the cold, rising gradually to the center of her being, and overflowing wave upon wave to her moaning mouth. A moment later, the whole sky stretched out above her as she lay with her back against the cold earth.”
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
“Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“We are all special cases.”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
“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.”
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
“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.”
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, 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. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
“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.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
“Live to the point of tears.”
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]”
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
“I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
“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.”
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“You can't create experience, you undergo it.”
“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.”
“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane or static life, the long anguish of living or dying. After so many years running from fear, fleeing crazily, uselessly, she was finally coming to a halt. At the same time she seemed to be recovering her roots, and the sap rose anew in her body, which was no longer trembling. Pressing her whole belly against the parapet, leaning toward the wheeling sky, she was only waiting for her pounding heart to settle down, and for the silence to form in her. The last constellations of stars fell in bunches a little lower on the horizon of the desert, and stood motionless. Then, with an unbearable sweetness, the waters of the night began to fill her, submerging the cold, rising gradually to the center of her being, and overflowing wave upon wave to her moaning mouth. A moment later, the whole sky stretched out above her as she lay with her back against the cold earth.”
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
“Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“We are all special cases.”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
“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.”
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
“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.”
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, 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. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
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