Albert Camus Quotes

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

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

The meaning of life is life.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

If you cannot render me a reason how I came hither, and what I am, I must go to those who will render me one. And if that craving be not satisfied by a rational theory of life, it will demand satisfaction from some magical theory;

Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.