Albert Camus Quotes

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

The meaning of life is life.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

The purpose of life is life.

If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.