Camus Notebooks Quotes & Sayings

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. — Albert Camus

There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher. — Henry Van Dyke

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. — Fred Allen

It is an old and wise caution, that when our neighbor's house is on fire, we ought to take care of our own. For tho', blessed be God, I live in a government where liberty is well understood, and freely enjoy'd; yet experience has shown us all that bad precedent in one government is soon set up for an authority in another; and therefore I cannot but think it mine, and every honest man's duty that we ought at the same time to be upon our guard against power, wherever we apprehend that it may affect ourselves or our fellow subjects.
I should think it my duty, if required, to go to the utmost part of the land, where my service could be of any use in assisting to quench the flame of prosecutions upon informations, set on foot by the government, to deprive a people of their right to remonstrating (and complaining too) of the arbitrary attempts of men in power. — Andrew Hamilton

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. — Albert Camus

My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say. — Wes Craven

When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience. — Jochen Zeitz

Efficiency is often the enemy of fun. It doesn't have to be. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last. — Rosemary Altea

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion. — Terence McKenna

On my journey I have discovered that there is a huge difference between the traditional view of prayer and what the Bible teaches. — Paul Silway

Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that. — Andy Serkis

It's well known that I play aggressively. When I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job. — Hines Ward

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track. — Brian Tracy

Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all. — Larry McMurtry