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Day Quotes by Albert Camus
- Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
- The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the…
- In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst…
- Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and…
- No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which…
- The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic…
- Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts…
- Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
- Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
- It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled…
- There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was…
- After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust…
- I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I…
- Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
- 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…
- There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that…
- ...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight.…
- One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
- In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone…
- Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new…
- In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their…
- At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively…
- Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
- I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough…
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- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong