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

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

“Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”

“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.”

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

“The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”

““Nothing in life is worth,”

“But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.”

“In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”

“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’”

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

“لو كنت شيعيا لأيدت المظاهرات.. ولو كنت سنيا لتوجست منها... لا أتمنى أن أكون سنيا في دولة شيعية.. ولا أن أكون شيعيا في الخليج.. لكني لا أخشى أن أكون بوذيا في بريطانيا..”

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”