Quote

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
Author
Essayist
French Resistance Fighter
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Professor
Screenwriter
Writer
Drean
Camus
Looking
Happiness
Happy
Live
Never
Sisyphus
Life
Discontent
Unhappiness
Meaning

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
Albert Camus
Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
Albert Camus
Image
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
Albert Camus
Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
Albert Camus
Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Albert Camus
Image
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus
Image
Do you believe in God, doctor? No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
Albert Camus
Image
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus
Image
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
Albert Camus
Image
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
Albert Camus
Image
life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
Albert Camus
Image
Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
Albert Camus
Image
If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved
Albert Camus
Image
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
Albert Camus
Image
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice hideous, witless justice.
Albert Camus
Image
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
Albert Camus
Image
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert Camus
Image
I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
Albert Camus
Image
Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
Albert Camus