Albert Camus Quotes

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

Albert Camus

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.

  

  Candace Kita
  • May
  • Political
  • Support

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Food
  • Language
  • Dead

• I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Level
  • Waste

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Love
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Credit
  • Month
  • Credit Card

• In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Man
  • Growing

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Certain

• I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Nature
  • Success
  • Failure

• Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.

  

  Uri Shulevitz
  • Travel

• I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Great
  • Believe

• I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Believe
  • Adventure
  • Gateway