Albert Camus Quotes

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

Nature is monumentally indifferent.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

If you know how to live, even death is good news

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.