Albert Camus Quotes

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus

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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Best

• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Future

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Future
  • Dreams

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Attention
  • My Life

• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Done
  • Things
  • Regret

• The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • True
  • My Life

• Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Rock

• I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Attitude

• There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Chess

• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Friends
  • Die
  • Regret

• In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

  

  John Walters
  • People
  • Drug
  • Marijuana

• My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I'm not going to say she hasn't tried alcohol and drugs. She's gone through everything every other teenager does.

  

  Priscilla Presley
  • She
  • Teenager
  • Alcohol

• He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Hope
  • Human Condition
  • Despairs

• I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Future
  • My Life
  • Regret