Albert Camus Quotes About Destiny

• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Greatness, Destiny

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Men, Faces

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

  Albert Camus

  Change, Fate, Destiny

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Agony, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

• If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

  Albert Camus

  Optimistic, Destiny, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

• No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Emotion, Individual

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

• What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, People, Finals

• The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Destiny, Rebel

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.27, Vintage

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