Albert Camus Quotes

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Albert Camus

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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Country
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• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
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• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Routine is the death to heroism.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Death

• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life
  • Death

• When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Women
  • Death
  • Hair

• When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Together
  • Pretty

• Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Death
  • Feeling
  • Brain

• I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

  

  Tacitus
  • Death

• The truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance.

  

  Eliza Parsons
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Looks

• You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Heaven

• I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

  

  Kelly Cutrone
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Habit