#albert camus quotes

[jackxo]

𝐵𝓁𝓊𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝓁𝓊𝑒 𝓈𝓀𝒾𝑒𝓈

[hamoodmood]

Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

Credit for the first pic: @willinskiasinwill

[laylaslibrary]

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

—Albert Camus, The Stranger

[fairydrowning]

When Albert Camus wrote "somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody."

[camus-cat-cigarette]

'No, Caligula is not dead. He is here, and there. He is in each and every one of you. If you had the power, if you had the heart, if you loved life, you would see him, this monster or this angel that you carry within you (...) Farewell, I return to the history where those who fear to love too much have kept me locked up for so long.'

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1948; January 1937 ☆ via albertcamusofficial ig

[ardent-reflections]

Maybe it's not about the happy ending. Maybe it's about the story.

Albert Camus

[darkacademianew]

This is absurd.

[i-want-to-be-a-poet]

[emotinalsupportturtle]

pretty sure the name of Nina’s coffee shop in Good Omens, "Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death" was inspired by Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death" or Eddie Izzard's cake or death bit or a combination of both.

But… has anyone considered this;

[fl3urdelis]

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

- Albert Camus

[coffeebirbsdarkacademia]

But the heart sometimes seeks suffering

Albert Camus to Maria Casares, Correspondance, January 15, 1950

[jackxo]

ℑ 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔪𝔶 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢… ☕️

[hamoodmood]

[laylaslibrary]

I have breathed better, I have hated things less. I have admired more freely what deserved admiration. With you, I have accepted more. I have learned to live.

—Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written c. July 1949

[fairydrowning]

-Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951–1959

[TEXT ID: "Somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody." END ID]

[camus-cat-cigarette]