Meursault Death Quotes & Sayings

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge. — Marie Osmond

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy. — Jessica Lange

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs. — Richard Ford

You bow to no one, — Sarah J. Maas

You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission. — David Wolpe

Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts. — Nicole Lyons

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles. — Dalai Lama

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot. — Olivia Palermo

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from a much deeper place. — Lynn Coady

While he can interact with others who have no idea that anything is wrong, Ron lives without spontaneity, going through the motions, doing what he thinks people expect him to do, glad that he is able to at least appear normal throughout the day and maintain a job. He studied drama briefly while in college, and remains enamored of Shakespeare and literature, but an emerging self-consciousness eventually robbed him of his ability to act. Now he feels as if all of his life is an act - just an attempt to maintain the status quo.

Recalling literature he once loved, he sometimes pictures himself as Camus's Meursault, in The Stranger: an emotionless character who plods through life in a meaningless universe with apathy and indifference. He's tired of living
this way but terrified of death. — Daphne Simeon

It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now. — Lili St. Crow

Always there lurks the assumption that although the Western consumer belongs to a numerical minority, he is entitled either to own or to expend (or both) the majority of the world resources. Why? Because he, unlike the Oriental, is a true human being. No better instance exists today of what Anwar Abdel Malek calls "the hegemonism of possessing minorities" and anthropocentrism allied with Europocentrism: a white middle-class Westerner believes it his human prerogative not only to manage the nonwhite world but also to own it, just because by definition "it" is not quite as human as "we" are. There is no purer example than this of dehumanized thought. — Edward W. Said

When you notice your world exactly as it is - free from judgment and with detachment from anticipated outcomes - that is Zen. — Dan Tricarico

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York. — Tracy Morgan