Albert Camus Quotes

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Everyone serves a purpose.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

We all need a meaning to our life.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

I have a rendezvous with life.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.