11 Albert Camus Quotes on Time

Albert Camus quotes on time

14. Aujourd'hui maman est morte. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas.

16. Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

19. I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

38. To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

41. 'My field,' said Goethe, 'is time.' That is indeed the absurd speech. What, in fact, is the Absurd Man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign to him. But he prefers his courage and his reasoning. The first teaches him to live without appeal and to get along with what he has; the second informs him of his limits. Assured of his temporally limited freedom, of his revolt devoid of future, and of his mortal consciousness, he lives out his adventure within the span of his lifetime.

58. The actor's realm is that of the fleeting.

72. Query: How to contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room; by remaining on one's balcony all a Sunday afternoon; by travelling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by queueing at the box-office of theatres and then not booking a seat.

110. Barbarism is never temporary. Sufficient allowance is never made for it, and, quite naturally, from art barbarism extends to morals.

111. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

136. Half a man's life is spent in implying, in turning away, and in keeping silent.

187. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.