Quotes by Camus, Albert

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human >>

If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life a >>

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at leas >>

Quotations about Suicide

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets throu >>

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses >>

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the mea >>

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. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

Camus, Albert