Albert Camus Quotes
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
Quotes to Explore
-
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
-
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
-
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
-
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
-
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
-
Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
-
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
-
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
-
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
-
I'm not a babysitter.
-
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
-
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
-
Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
-
There's no sex in Middle Earth.
-
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
-
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
-
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
-
I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
-
I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.
-
There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
-
I will know him by his eyes.
-
…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
-
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
