Albert Camus Quotes

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

Albert Camus

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• Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Certain
  • Vampire
  • Almost

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Age
  • Never
  • Certain

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Value
  • Seriously

• I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Kid
  • Seriously
  • Comics

• When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Experience
  • Taken
  • Open

• More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Female

• People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Taken
  • Years

• When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Idea

• If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Me
  • Kiss
  • Seriously

• To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Power
  • Amazing
  • Taken

• I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Fact

• All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Home
  • Guitar
  • Seriously

• In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Long
  • Certain
  • Break

• Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Different
  • Girl

• Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Picture
  • Certain
  • Librarian

• I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

  

  Eva LaRue
  • Friends
  • Grew Up
  • My Children

• Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sick
  • Disease
  • Perceive

• I feel bad about Lil Wayne going to jail, because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.

  

  Bun B
  • Music
  • Army
  • Jail

• Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that’s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn’t happen to me, I don’t want to think it happens to anyone else.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Kind

• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Certain
  • Seriously
  • Conclusions