Albert Camus Quotes

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

Life is stronger than death.

Life. Consider the alternative.

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

To me death is better than the defensive.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.