Albert Camus Quotes

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Albert Camus

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• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Risk

• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Risk

• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Man

• The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Me

• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Myself

• Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Happy
  • Be Happy
  • Vine

• In business, you try to minimise risk.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Try

• I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Happy
  • Admit
  • Hopeless

• I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Balance

• I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Happy
  • Own
  • Skin

• I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• Diversity and inclusion are always something industries should strive for.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Always
  • Diversity
  • Inclusion

• For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you get on well with leftists at a party, they will blithely assume that you share the same views on the invasion of Iraq, even if all you've talked about is the canapes.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Political
  • Party
  • Identity

• It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Passion
  • Joy
  • Habit

• There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happy
  • Risk