Albert Camus Quotes

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

You can be normal if you choose to be.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

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.

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.

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

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction.

I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.

I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

How am I different than anyone else? I'm a human being, and I have my faults, too.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.