Albert Camus Worth Quotations

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.