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Existentialism Quotes by Albert Camus
- It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not…
- This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
- One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But…
- Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts…
- Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
- But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.…
- At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but…
- There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that…
- There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
- I rebel; therefore I exist.
- Everything is true, and nothing is true!
More Existentialism Quotes
- It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to… — Albert Camus
- What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer.… — Samuel Beckett
- I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I… — Jean-Paul Sartre
- Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre
- But how could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse
- 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 misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir