Albert Camus Quotes

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

A human being is a deciding being.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

One creates oneself.

I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that's perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I'm getting into.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.

No one can tell me what to do.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.