Albert Camus Quotes

There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.

People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

I don't believe in death.

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.