Albert Camus Quotes

The act of love is a confession.

Albert Camus

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• A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Man
  • Die

• I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Work
  • Discipline

• The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Reason
  • Enjoy

• The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Despair
  • Hurts
  • Impossibility

• I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Moment
  • Supposed

• They carried on sniping in the front seat, and Mae turned back to Jamie. "You doing okay?" she murmured. "Yes," said Jamie, a bit too earnestly. "I love you, Mae. Your hair is the color of flamingos! And I love Nick as well." He gazed soulfully in Nick's direction. "Sometimes when you are not being psychotic, you are quite funny. And you!" He regarded Seb for a long moment. "No, I still don't like you," he decided. "Maybe I need another drink." "I don't think so," Nick said.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Griefs

• Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Remember
  • Passion
  • Vocation

• Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparte have submitted ("s'est plié", Fr.) for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it ("peuvent tout sur eux-mêmes quand ils le veulent", Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.

  

  African Spir
  • Good
  • Education
  • Disciple

• I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.

  

  Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Catholic
  • Brought

• I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Want
  • Comedies
  • Dramas

• I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Adventure
  • Depiction
  • Overused

• Write whatever you like!

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Write

• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Artist
  • Honest
  • Consider

• The act of love is a confession.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Confession
  • Act Of Love