Albert Camus Quotes

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus

• Judgment
• Wait
• Take Place

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Alone
  • Field
  • April

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Fresh

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Decision

• It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Couple
  • Years
  • Flight

• I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Mind
  • Star
  • Blow

• Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

  

  Philip Schaff
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • School
  • Wonder

• Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Bigs
  • Vacation

• Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Children
  • Too Much
  • Ruined

• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Kind
  • Economy
  • Recovery

• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Years
  • President

• I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Water
  • Jump
  • Stills

• A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.

  

  African Spir
  • Possibility
  • Benefits
  • Reflections

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.

  

  Amy-Jill Levine
  • Religion
  • Listening
  • Parable

• Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Judgment
  • Wait
  • Take Place