Albert Camus Quotes

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

The only secret people keep is immortality.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.