Quotes about men
men reason existence
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence. Albert Camus
men feelings mind
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
men together links
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
men law trying
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
men free-man
Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
men anxious wander
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
men want might
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
men artist stronger
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
men thinking despair
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps.
men hands way
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
men self honest
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
men machines firsts
So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
men liberty want
...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
men judging-yourself mind
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
men feelings faces
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
men suffering world
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
men paper may
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
men views years
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.
men independence craving
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
men desire useless
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
men individuality trying
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
men important execution
How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
men irony hunger
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
men two self
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
men evil world
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
men greatness liberty
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
men order rebel
In order to exist, man must rebel.
men simplicity arrogance
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
men matter indifference
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
men suffering cry
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
men innocence guilty
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
men transcendental without-god
The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.
men class privileged
There is only one class of men, the privileged class