English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Albert Camus Quotes

Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

Albert Camus

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances. Hugo Weaving
Ione Skye quote: "Yoga is a life-saver."
Yoga is a life-saver. Ione Skye
and talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish. Jane Austen
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable. Joyce Carol Oates
It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions...More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature. Ludwig von Mises
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. Charles Sturt
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead. Yul Brynner
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle. Mark Kelly
Xun Zi quote: "If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with..."
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. Xun Zi
Alvin Ailey quote: "One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young..."
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. Alvin Ailey
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. Ralph A. Cram
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. Douglas Hurd
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense. Lewis Black
Riccardo Giacconi quote: "The universe is popping all over the place."
The universe is popping all over the place. Riccardo Giacconi
Terry Goodkind quote: "Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it."
Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it. Terry Goodkind