Albert Camus Quotes

How hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Albert Camus

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• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Mind
  • Information
  • Library

• The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • History
  • Together
  • Age

• Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Money
  • Die
  • Rock

• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Hope
  • Pride
  • Forward

• I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Agree

• The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Past
  • Sunset

• I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Joy
  • Things
  • Gains

• Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Creates
  • All Things
  • Victories

• Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

  

  Plutarch
  • Wife
  • Commander
  • Foreign Lady

• I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Christian
  • Miracles

• I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Man
  • Speak
  • Creeds

• There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.

  

  Alister Hardy
  • Life
  • Oceans

• I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • World
  • Political
  • Military

• I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hopes
  • Not Believe
  • Poisoners

• The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Think
  • Song
  • Me

• How hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

  

  Albert Camus
  • Hopes
  • Remembers
  • Cutoff