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

• When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Dream
  • Silent
  • Caught

• I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Jesus

• When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Energy
  • Change

• Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

  

  Suzanne Collins
  • Freedom
  • Story
  • Explore

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

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happy
  • Risk