Albert Camus Quotes

What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

Albert Camus

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• Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • God
  • Mess

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • God
  • Need
  • Hell

• English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Christian
  • Perfection

• I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • God
  • Never
  • Old

• God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Exercise

• There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Mother
  • Free

• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • God
  • Democracy
  • Violence

• When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,Out of the land of bondage came,Her fathers' God before her mov'd,An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God

• Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • God
  • Universe
  • Personality

• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God

• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • God
  • Why
  • Game

• Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessed

• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• I am yours. If you feed me garbage, I will sing a song of garbage. This is a hymn.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Song

• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Reason

• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Important
  • Stress
  • September

• I know I must live in France, but I don't want to cut myself off from America. France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that's why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it's like shouting in a forest. There's no echo.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Work
  • Live
  • Why

• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Image