Albert Camus Quotes

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Albert Camus

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• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Moment

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • House

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Me
  • Training
  • Courage

• I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Me
  • Kind

• We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • Kids
  • Age

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • Family
  • Myself

• Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Conflict
  • Pursuit

• I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Different
  • Hurt
  • Body

• Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Today

• I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Like
  • Classical

• History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• To conceive a thought - just one, but one that would tear the universe to pieces.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Universe

• The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Universe
  • Effort

• The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Alone
  • Universe
  • Tragedy