Albert Camus Quotes

And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

"Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?" The Imass shrugged before replying. "I think of futility, Adjunct." "Do all Imass think about futility?" "No. Few think at all." "Why is that?" The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. "Because, Adjunct, it is futile."

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

My search not only failed, but I convinced myself that all those who had searched like myself had failed also, and come like me to the despairing conviction that the only absolute knowledge man can possess is this—that life is without a meaning.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

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

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.