Albert Camus Quotes

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Life and hope must cease together.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

I don't have to kill myself, time is going to do that.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.

I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.