Albert Camus Quotes

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

The meaning of life is life.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

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.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.