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Living Quotes by Albert Camus
- You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the…
- Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains…
- Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our…
- In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a…
- People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not…
- He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even…
- To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be…
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the…
- To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see…
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions…
- A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
- What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
- 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 can…
- Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had…
- The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,…
- Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
- Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
- When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one…
- Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know…
- We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their…
- But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
- If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on…
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
- I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov