"Without work all life goes rotten...." - Quote by Albert Camus
Without work all life goes rotten.
More by Albert Camus
“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
“Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)”
More on Work
“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”
“I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.”
“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.”
More on Life
“Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!”
“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”
“Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.”