Albert Camus Quotes

I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

Albert Camus

• Silence
• Harmony
• Trace

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• If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Red
  • Apple

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Power
  • War
  • Stop

• I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Think
  • Best
  • Communication

• As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

  

  Edward Bond
  • Peace

• The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High

• I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

  

  Joanna Kerns

• You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • People
  • History
  • Future

• When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Live
  • Small

• Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World

• Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

  

  John Dickerson

• It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

  

  Chris Daughtry
  • Good
  • Music
  • May

• Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Good
  • Believe

• Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Book
  • Author

• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Home

• That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Help
  • Team
  • Football

• But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Killed

• I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Bands
  • Digging
  • U2

• Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Existentialism

• Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Fear
  • New Step

• From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Work
  • Career
  • Single

• I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Silence
  • Harmony
  • Trace