Desire Quote by Albert Camus Download Open image “Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.” — Albert Camus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Useless
Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are suppliedmust admit those of fancy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image