Existentialism Quotes by Albert Camus

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

— Albert Camus

I rebel; therefore I exist.

— Albert Camus

The absurd is sin without God.

— Albert Camus

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

— Albert Camus

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

— Albert Camus

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

— Albert Camus

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

— Albert Camus

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

— Albert Camus

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

— Albert Camus

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

— Albert Camus

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

— Albert Camus

This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.

— Albert Camus

“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the…

— Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can…

— Albert Camus

“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and…

— Albert Camus

“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be…

— Albert Camus

“How did I picture the life after the grave? I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember…

— Albert Camus

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note…

— Albert Camus

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to…

— Albert Camus

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,…

— 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

“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of…

— Albert Camus

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of…

— Albert Camus

“The world itself, whose single meaning I do not understand, is but a vast irrational. If one could only say just once:…

— Albert Camus

“God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts…

— Albert Camus

From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live…

— Albert Camus

“Where is the absurdity of the world? Is it this resplendent glow or the memory of its absence? With so much sun…

— 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

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that…

— Albert Camus

“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work…

— Albert Camus

“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and…

— Albert Camus

“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass…

— Albert Camus

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

— 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

“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign…

— Albert Camus

“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or…

— Albert Camus

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

— Albert Camus

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”

— Albert Camus

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could…

— Albert Camus

“A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and…

— Albert Camus