Quote of Albert Camus: Without work, all life goes rotten....

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Albert Camus

Quotes about life:

Don't let words limit the possibilities of life.

Alan Watts /

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi /

life

All about life...

Quotes about work:

To make a virtue out of necessity; that is the beautiful and great work.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur /

The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius - Analects /

My work is a game, a very serious game.

M. C. Escher /

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Dirty Hands /

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings /

work

Sowing is not so hard as reaping.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

work

All about work...

Albert Camus also said...

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus - Carnets /

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus - L'Été /

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

Albert Camus - Chroniques /

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

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