Albert Camus Existentialism Quotes

#1. If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

Marianne Williamson

#2. You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

Ian Kelsey

#3. Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Albert Camus

#4. I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

Ryan Kwanten

#5. After awhile you could get used to anything.

Albert Camus

#6. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus

#8. We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.

Albert Camus

#9. And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fire - and it would come to absolutely the same thing.

Albert Camus

#10. You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out.
Happy and judged or absolved and miserable.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

#12. Waiting well looks forward to the future while staying present in the present. Waiting well means I remain open to God and allow Him to move me toward the future He has planned, in His time.

Wendy Pope

#13. A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

Albert Camus

#14. How did I picture the life after the grave?
I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

Albert Camus

#15. There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Albert Camus

#16. Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Albert Camus

#17. It's an intense feeling of human experience when a connection has the kind of power to turn dreams into a reality or crush them almost instantly. Those are the souls you remember decades down the road.

Nikki Rowe

#18. If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Albert Camus

#19. Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#20. 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 integrity has no need of rules

Albert Camus

#21. Who else but that oracle of American liberalism, the New York Times, could run the puzzled headline: "Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling." But? How about this wild theory: If you lock up the criminals, crime declines.

Charles Krauthammer

#22. The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable

Albert Camus

#23. The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

#25. If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

Albert Camus

#26. I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

Rick Baker

#27. Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

Clifford D. Simak

#28. I rebel; therefore I exist.

Albert Camus

#29. The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Albert Camus

#30. Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.

Albert Camus

#31. Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

Albert Camus

#32. Daemon's gaze slipped from his brother to me then back to his brother. Are we having a slumber party? And I'm not invited?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#33. 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 look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Albert Camus

#34. Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Albert Camus

#35. To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

Albert Camus

#36. Because you scratched my itch and then you kissed me - both of which freaked me out because neither of which are in the course syllabus for laboratory experiments this semester. And, furthermore -

Penny Reid