Albert Camus Quotes

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

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• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Wife

• Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Matter

• If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • World
  • Why
  • Girl

• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Winning

• The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Experience
  • History
  • Culture

• Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Freedom
  • Rest
  • Taken

• But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Happiness

• The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Education

• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Obstacles
  • Enthusiasm
  • Releases

• If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Finds

• God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Succeed

• Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Clear
  • Message
  • Faithful

• The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Feelings

• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Power
  • Lie
  • Falsehood

• Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

  

  Albert Camus
  • Faithful
  • Love Me
  • Genus