Albert Camus Quotes

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Albert Camus

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• The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • World
  • Country
  • Black

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Good
  • Long
  • Peace

• The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • May
  • American

• I don't hold grudges.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Hold
  • Grudges

• I have quite a foul mouth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Mouth
  • Quite
  • Foul

• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • History
  • High

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Determined

• I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Trying
  • Training
  • Win

• One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Death
  • Justice

• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Power
  • Control
  • Government

• When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Volunteer

• When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Dream
  • English
  • Language

• Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • World
  • Idea
  • Everyone

• At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• I've always been interested in acting - since I was a little girl.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Girl

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Pain
  • Dreams
  • Blessing

• I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun.

  

  SZA
  • Bad
  • Fun

• I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • President
  • Economy
  • Security

• ... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Pain
  • Need
  • Anticipation