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Albert Camus Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus

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Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus

Nothing Quotes and Sayings

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow.
There's nothing tangible of yesterday.
All I can say I've done is
agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes
and then boom - it's gone.
- Edward R. Murrow

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The whole of science is nothing more
than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Epictetus

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie