Albert Camus Quotes

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

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

The meaning of life is life.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

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

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.