Patrick Goodacre > Patrick's Quotes

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.”
― Albert Camus

“Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.”
― Albert Camus

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
― Albert Camus

“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“What we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for others remains in the world today”
― Albert Camus

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves that their existence is not absurd.”
― Albert Camus

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre