Albert Camus Quotes

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

Anybody can relate to anyone on 'Glee' at some point in their life.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

It doesn't matter who you are: being human is being human. Everyone has days that are challenging.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

Everybody has unhappiness.

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.

Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.

I think there's always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have, I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.

It's interesting to go places and see that, at the end of the day, people just want to feel safe, and what that looks like to them varies... but that was encouraging to see that there is more common ground than perhaps I realized.