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Top 30 Peter Cameron Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Cameron Quote: “I only feel like myself when I am alone.”

1. “I only feel like myself when I am alone.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I’m thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.”

2. “I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I’m thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing – working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!”

3. “I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing – working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one’s life supersedes the actual living of said life.”

4. “I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one’s life supersedes the actual living of said life.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.”

5. “I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “She had all the best things wrong with her – incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.”

6. “She had all the best things wrong with her – incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.”

7. “One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well – adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.”

8. “I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well – adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”

9. “I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.”

10. “Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”

11. “New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn’t come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.”

12. “I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn’t come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.”

13. “Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “It is a shame that we so quickly lose that ability to believe in things; it limits the opportunities we have to transform ourselves, to save ourselves, for it puts the awful burden of transforming and saving ourselves on ourselves. Once you stop believing, you cannot pray, or make sacrifices or pilgrimages, or light candles. You are stuck with yourself, in a world without miracles.”

14. “It is a shame that we so quickly lose that ability to believe in things; it limits the opportunities we have to transform ourselves, to save ourselves, for it puts the awful burden of transforming and saving ourselves on ourselves. Once you stop believing, you cannot pray, or make sacrifices or pilgrimages, or light candles. You are stuck with yourself, in a world without miracles.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart.”

15. “It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”

16. “What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “People who have only good experiences aren’t very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren’t very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well – it’s easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don’t think you’re going to have a life like that, and I think you’ll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift – a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.”

17. “People who have only good experiences aren’t very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren’t very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well – it’s easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don’t think you’re going to have a life like that, and I think you’ll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift – a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it’s the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say “I love you.” I think just the opposite – that thoughts are realest when thought, that expressing them distorts or dilutes them, that it is best for them to stay in the dark climate-controlled airport chapel of your mind, that if they’re released into the air and light they will be affected in a way that alters them, like film accidentally exposed.”

18. “Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it’s the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say “I love you.” I think just the opposite – that thoughts are realest when thought, that expressing them distorts or dilutes them, that it is best for them to stay in the dark climate-controlled airport chapel of your mind, that if they’re released into the air and light they will be affected in a way that alters them, like film accidentally exposed.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I knew my mother was right, but that didn’t change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they’re right, you’ll change your mind.”

19. “I knew my mother was right, but that didn’t change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they’re right, you’ll change your mind.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I don’t think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can’t bear environments that make this truth so obvious.”

20. “I don’t think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can’t bear environments that make this truth so obvious.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I like life. I would not want to live forever, but for a little while, life is fine.”

21. “I like life. I would not want to live forever, but for a little while, life is fine.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I don’t know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.”

22. “I don’t know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.”

23. “I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought.”

24. “I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “There are things in your life that you don’t want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.”

25. “There are things in your life that you don’t want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “I’m fascinated by lobotomies, the idea of opening up the brain and snipping around a bit and then closing it up again, like fixing a car or something. And the person wakes up and is a little stupid but stupid in a happy, untroubled way.”

26. “I’m fascinated by lobotomies, the idea of opening up the brain and snipping around a bit and then closing it up again, like fixing a car or something. And the person wakes up and is a little stupid but stupid in a happy, untroubled way.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “You’re so young... Are you sure that’s what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?”

27. “You’re so young... Are you sure that’s what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “The main problem was I don’t like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.”

28. “The main problem was I don’t like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “American men are so embarrassed about napping,” she said. “They think it is some sort of feminine indulgence. I detest a man who can’t nap.”

29. “American men are so embarrassed about napping,” she said. “They think it is some sort of feminine indulgence. I detest a man who can’t nap.”

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Peter Cameron Quote: “And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like – the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.”

30. “And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like – the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.”

— Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron Quote: “It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness.”

31. “It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness.”

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