Albert Camus Quotes

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

He who has never hoped can never despair

I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

Some days I'm up, some days I'm down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.