Albert Camus Quotes

I have no talent for certainty.

After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

I'm not so certain in life.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.