Albert Camus Quotes

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

I do believe I was put here to tell stories and be creative in that way. It's given my life so much purpose and meaning, and it's ultimately what I live for.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

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

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

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.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Life should be lived to the point of tears

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.