Destiny Quotes by Albert Camus

A fate is not a punishment.

— Albert Camus

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

— Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

— Albert Camus

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

— Albert Camus

Fate is not in man but around him

— Albert Camus

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

— Albert Camus

“There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

— Albert Camus

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where…

— Albert Camus

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,…

— Albert Camus

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do…

— Albert Camus

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to…

— Albert Camus

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is…

— Albert Camus

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

— Albert Camus

The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against…

— Albert Camus

“If there is a personal fate, there is no higher destiny or at least there is but one which he concludes is…

— Albert Camus

“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying…

— 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

“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not…

— Albert Camus