"He seemed so certain about everything, didn't..." - Quote by Albert Camus
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.
More by Albert Camus
“Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.”
“The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.”
“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”
More on Certainty
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
“He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.”
“People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.”