Albert Camus Quotes

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark--why not kill myself? Missed the bus--better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie--maybe I shouldn't kill myself.

He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.