Life Quotes Quote by Albert Camus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.”

“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”

“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”

“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

““Yeah, about the test...”

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

“Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”