"And his voice didn’t falter either, either, when he said, ‘Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?’
‘Yes,’ I said."
— Albert Camus, The Stranger (via mycardboardboxes)
"Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life."
— Albert Camus, The Fall (1951)
(Source: ontologist)
"…but it is also true that the tragedy of existence obsesses man and that this place is associated with the deepest silence."
— Albert Camus on Algeria in L’Envers et L’Endroit (via albusiambus)
"I was afraid, afraid of being lonely and of being permanently fixed. Today, I don’t know whether it was strength or weakness to have rejected this life, to have shut the door of what people call a ‘future’ in my own face, and to remain instead poor and insecure. But at least I know that if there is a conflict, it is for something worth while…What made me run away was doubtless that fear not so much of settling down but of settling down permanently somewhere ugly."
— Albert Camus - Notebooks (via viciousnessinthekitchen)
(Source: sisyphean-revolt)
"Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter."
— The Stranger by Albert Camus (via robertfyi)
"The modern mind is in complete disarray."
— Albert Camus (via modernmonday)
"John-Paul Sartre was wall-eyed and altogether not a very handsome fellow. Therefore, he may have been taken aback when his fellow existentialist, Albert Camus, expanded Sartre’s notion of human freedom by saying, “Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for the face he has.” Curiously, Camus looked a lot like Humphrey Bogart."
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from Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar.
Reading this in the hallway before my Syntax/Semantics class and I burst out laughing. Strangely enough, guy across from me who looks at me like I belong in an asylum also turns out to be a philosophy major, linguistics minor.
(via agnostictheist)
I always wanted to buy this book when I worked at Borders.
(Source: falsedilemmas)
Not only is it fantastic so far, I imagine the narrator is Chris Traeger from Parks ‘n Rec.
"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."
— Albert Camus (via ratskeleton)
(via ratskeleton-deactivated20111219)
"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 (via mikegarycole)
