A Life Worth Living Quotes

“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain" Albert Camus”
― Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

“One would like to be loved, recognized, for what one is, and by everyone. But that is an adolescent desire. Sooner or later one must get old, agree to be judged, or sentenced, and to receive gifts of love … as unmerited. Morality is of no help. Only, truth … that is the uninterrupted seeking of it, the decision to tell it when one sees it, on every level, and to live it, gives a meaning, a direction to one’s march. But in an era of bad faith, the man who does not want to renounce separating true from false is condemned to a certain kind of exile - Albert Camus”
― Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

“Camus felt defenseless against these “deep forces rising within me that said ‘no.’ ” No, in a word, to plans for the future, to talk about tomorrow, to things not yet done. Instead, Camus demands the weight of the present, of the earth, of a world shorn of its myths and faith in anything other than what we can see and touch and feel.”
― Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

“As Camus’ reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places—even Oran or Hades.”
― Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning