Albert Camus Quotes

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

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• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Climate

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Last
  • Holocaust

• Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Pregnancy

• And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Important
  • Feels

• A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Circumstances
  • Merger

• As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Money
  • Getting
  • Mail

• When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • Director
  • Envy

• Vitia erunt donec homines

  

  Tacitus

• O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!

  

  Walter Scott
  • High
  • Ambition

• As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Friends
  • Sun
  • Birthday

• The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

  

  Claude Nicollier
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Explore

• From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.

  

  E. M. Broner
  • She
  • Character
  • Truth

• I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Man
  • Heroic Poem

• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Earth
  • Happiness
  • Sons