Albert Camus Quotes

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

Albert Camus

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Peace
  • Meaning
  • Socialism

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Meaning

• Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Always
  • Human
  • Meaning

• I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Me

• Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Character
  • Story
  • Meaning

• The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Meaning

• Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Word
  • Meaning
  • Cut

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Need
  • Meaning

• It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Done
  • Funny

• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Absurd

• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Time
  • American
  • Meaning

• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Meaning
  • Rights

• Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Noble

• Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Value
  • Honestly
  • Absurd

• I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Novel

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Meaning
  • Absurd