Death Quotes by Albert Camus

“A life, whose purpose is money, is death.”

— Albert Camus

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

— Albert Camus

Men die and they are not happy.

— Albert Camus

“It's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.”

— Albert Camus

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

— Albert Camus

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

— Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

— Albert Camus

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

— Albert Camus

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

— Albert Camus

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

— Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

— Albert Camus

“Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.”

— Albert Camus

“Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die.”

— Albert Camus

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

— Albert Camus

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common…

— Albert Camus

“It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last…

— Albert Camus

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is…

— Albert Camus

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and…

— Albert Camus

“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and…

— Albert Camus

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

— Albert Camus

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk…

— Albert Camus

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long…

— Albert Camus

“So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right…

— Albert Camus

“The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of…

— albert camus

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,…

— Albert Camus

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make…

— Albert Camus

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality…

— Albert Camus

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love…

— Albert Camus

Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such…

— Albert Camus

“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the…

— Albert Camus

“But we do not congratulate a schoolmaster on teaching that two and two make four, though we may, perhaps, congratulate him on…

— Albert Camus

“I'm still of the same mind. For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions,…

— Albert Camus

“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of…

— Albert Camus

“In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know,…

— Albert Camus

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

— Albert Camus

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his…

— Albert Camus

“Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as…

— albert camus

“once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn’t reject those of the…

— Albert Camus

“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to…

— Albert Camus

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

— Albert Camus