Albert Camus Quotes

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.

TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

You have incredible lives ahead of you. You have incredible things that you can accomplish. If you feel that, you will have an amazing life. Do not let anything build a wall too high for you to get over. And I know that might seem very cliche, but I've had alot of friends who had hurt themselves. And when you're younger, a lot of that stuff is so temporary. You can get through it. You're stronger than you think. You'll ALWAYS be stronger than you think. Feel with your heart and do what you want.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

Happiness is a form of courage.

You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.