Autobiography Quote by Albert Camus

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

— Mary Antin

It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a…

— Sterling Hayden

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his…

— Mary Antin

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying,…

— George Orwell

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

“A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective.Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or strategies) are…

— John Bradshaw

“Shame is the bane of my existence both as a trauma therapist and as a survivor, as it is one of the most difficult…

— Amanda Ann Gregory

an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial…

— Mark Twain

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

— Claude Lelouch

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker