Albert Camus Quotes

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

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

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

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

The meaning of life is life.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

The purpose of life is life.

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.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.