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

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.”

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”

“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greatest on earth? A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving. The solid door that locks him in the cement shell stops at chin level. Hence only his face is visible, and every passing jailer spits copiously on it. The prisoner, wedged into his cell, cannot wipe his face, though he is allowed, it is true. to close his eyes. Well, that, mon cher, is a human invention. They didn't need God for that little masterpiece.”

“Hardships make or break people.”

“Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

““The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world."”

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”

““When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.”