Albert Camus Quotes

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I wish I were as sure of anything as Charles (Krouthammer) is about everything.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Maybe I think too much.

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

I'm not so certain in life.