Albert Camus Quotes

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Albert Camus

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• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Focus
  • Things
  • Changed

• You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Bridge

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Man
  • Science

• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Knees
  • Which
  • Affects

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Help
  • Child

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Die
  • Wrong
  • Prove

• I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Family
  • She
  • Father

• Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Remember
  • War

• Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Effort

• Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.

  

  Clive Barker
  • War
  • Dog
  • Mirror

• For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Law

• It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

  

  Billy Crystal

• Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

  

  David Wain
  • Work
  • Great

• Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

  

  David Farr

• When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

  

  Denton Welch
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Bitter

• O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Worst
  • Fine
  • Died

• We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Christ
  • Satisfy

• Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Love
  • Hate

• My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

  

  Sidney Lanier
  • Best
  • Artist
  • Criticism

• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Criticism
  • Creation
  • Rebellion