Albert Camus Quotes

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.