"If, after all, men cannot always make..." - Quote by Albert Camus
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
More by Albert Camus
“In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.”
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
“We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”
More on Meaning
“Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.”
“It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.”
“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”
More on Life
“Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.”
“And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.”
“I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?”