Albert Camus Quotes

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

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

The meaning of life is life.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.