"We get into the habit of living..." - Quote by Albert Camus
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
More by Albert Camus
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”
“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.”
“Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.”
More on Human Condition
“We are all beggars, each in his own way.”
“Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.”
“The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.”
More on Habit
“For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.”
“Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!”
“Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.”