Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

Albert Camus

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

Albert Camus

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Albert Camus

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.

Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Albert Camus

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Albert Camus

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Albert Camus

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Albert Camus

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Albert Camus

People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

Albert Camus

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

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

Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.

America Ferrera

How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.

America Ferrera

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

Amanda Hocking

And I'm stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can't stop, and you don't even care!

Amanda Hocking

I'm not all you need, and I don't even want to be. I just want to love you, for the rest of my life, and as long as you let me do that, we'll be okay.

Annie Lennox

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

Annie Dillard

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Annie Dillard

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Anna Pavlova

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Angelique Kidjo

What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.

Cindy Sherman

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.

Chuck Palahniuk

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred de Musset

[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?

Alfred de Musset

Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.

Alfred de Musset

One must not trifle with love