Albert Camus Quotes About Certainty

• He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hair, Alive

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.120, Vintage

• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  Albert Camus

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

• The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Choices, Bitterness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

• Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

  Albert Camus

  Crush, History, Deny

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.86, Vintage

• He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.

  Albert Camus

  Divine Justice, Would Be, Sin

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.118, Vintage

• What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Mean, Two

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

• This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Giving, Forever

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  Albert Camus

  Lasts, Certain, Conclusion

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