Albert Camus Quotes

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Albert Camus

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Win
  • Mistakes
  • Lose

• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Intelligent
  • Living
  • Capable

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Company
  • Name

• The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Opinions

• With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • Past
  • Best

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Future
  • Lies

• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • You
  • Forgotten
  • Frozen

• The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Violence
  • Voice

• I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Girl
  • Jump
  • Italian

• Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Real
  • Why
  • Imagination

• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Up
  • May
  • Mother

• Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Imagination
  • Humor
  • Consolation