Albert Camus Quotes

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

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• In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • America
  • Success

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • Work
  • Better

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

  

  B. B. King
  • Start
  • Street
  • Hometown

• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • Size

• Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.

  

  Ralph Nader

• I don't party, I don't get drunk and I don't have affairs. So all my passion goes into my work.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Work
  • Party
  • Passion

• All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Up
  • Dance

• Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:'Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake.'

  

  Louis MacNeice

• Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My animals are a really important part of my life.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Life
  • Important

• I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

  

  Buddha
  • Life
  • Live

• We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Long
  • History
  • Drug

• Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Great
  • Age

• Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.

  

  Cheryl Clarke
  • Women
  • Liberation
  • Kept

• In a word, commercial competition, under the paternal aegis of the law, allows the great majority of merchants-— and this fact is attested to in countless medical inquests-— adulterate provisions and drink, sell pernicious substances as wholesome food, and kill by slow poisoning… Let people say what they will, slavery, which abolitionists strove so gallantly to extirpate in America, prevails in another form in every civilized country; for entire populations, placed between the alternatives of death by starvation and toils which they detest, are constrained to choose the latter. And if we would deal frankly with the barbarous society to which we belong, we must acknowledge that murder, albeit disguised under a thousand insidious and scientific forms, still, as in the times of primitive savagery, terminates the majority of lives.

  

  Elisee Reclus
  • Law
  • Competition
  • Kill

• I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.

  

  Big Joe Turner
  • Money
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Courage
  • Needs
  • Kill