Albert Camus Quotes

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think... This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

I waged war against my feelings.

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

Negative feelings choke the Lord’s word in us.

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.

A divided heart offers a strange sensation.