Albert Camus Quotes

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

Albert Camus

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• Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Environmental
  • Pollution
  • Fifteen

• We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Harmony
  • Day-to-day

• He governed as if he felt predestined to never die...

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Die
  • Never
  • Felt

• I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

  

  William Golding
  • Play
  • Piano
  • Sitting

• So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Grandchildren
  • I Wonder
  • Suggesting

• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • E-mail
  • Telephone
  • Convenient

• I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.

  

  Brandy
  • Mistakes
  • Never Gave Up

• I slipped and the ball got away from me with nothing on it. Maybe it's lucky it hit Lou, instead of going over the plate.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Lucky
  • Hit
  • Lou

• Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.

  

  Marian Gold Alphaville
  • Quiet
  • Understood
  • Bears

• The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Collaboration
  • Communications

• I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Hard

• Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Become

• Poetry is the greatest literature, and pleasure in poetry is the greatest of literary pleasures. It is also the least easy to attain and there are some people who never do attain it.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Pleasures

• If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.

  

  Eric Frank Russell
  • Love Is
  • Works
  • Almighty

• They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Attain
  • Human Love
  • Yearn