Albert Camus Quotes

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

It's difficult to judge yourself.

I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.

For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.

Sometimes I'll feel like an interview was fine or whatever, and people go, 'Oh, boy, I saw you with so and so last night; that must have been tough.' And then I'm like, 'I guess it was bad. I need to look back at that.'

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.

I don't think I'm a bad egg.

I honestly have never really even watched some other things I've done. I don't like doing that to be honest.

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

Would I have fired me? Knowing me? No.

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.