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

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• 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
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• MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

  

  M. J. Rose
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  • Accept
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• 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

• People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Children
  • Night
  • Words

• 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

• Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Different
  • War
  • Nature

• 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

• My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Up
  • Aunt

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

  

  Joanna Kerns

• I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Up
  • Job
  • Age

• 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

• I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • American
  • Fear

• Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • Force
  • Social
  • Mankind

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• 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