Albert Camus Quotes

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
  • Man
  • Blessings

• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Good
  • God
  • Father

• Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Health
  • Manage
  • Accounts

• Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Exercise
  • Thing
  • Lose Weight

• Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Job
  • Calm

• When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Battle
  • Opposing
  • Victorious

• You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Happy
  • Ridiculous
  • Endings

• The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Great
  • Society
  • Church

• If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry free.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Life
  • Free
  • Worry

• If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

  

  William Barclay
  • People
  • Should
  • Becoming

• Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Journey
  • Wings
  • Receive

• It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Despair
  • Provide
  • Fall In Love