Time Quotes by Albert Camus

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

— Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

“But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves”

— Albert Camus

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

— Albert Camus

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

— Albert Camus

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot…

— Albert Camus

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

— Albert Camus

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

— Albert Camus

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there…

— Albert Camus

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

— Albert Camus

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

— Albert Camus

“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”

— Albert Camus

“It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood…

— Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there…

— Albert Camus

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they…

— Albert Camus

From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live…

— Albert Camus

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in…

— Albert Camus

“Thinking is learning all over again to see, to be attentive, to focus consciousness; it is turning every idea and every image,…

— Albert Camus

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard…

— Albert Camus

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all,…

— Albert Camus

The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful…

— Albert Camus

“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a…

— Albert Camus

“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be,…

— Albert Camus

“How wonderful that must be! What we call spring here is one rose and a couple of buds struggling to keep alive…

— Albert Camus

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make…

— Albert Camus

“Every man has felt himself to be the equal of a god at certain moments. But this comes from the fact that…

— Albert Camus

“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the…

— Albert Camus

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to…

— Albert Camus

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything…

— Albert Camus

“He had never loved anything except what was inevitable. The people fate had imposed on him, the world as it appeared to…

— Albert Camus

“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from…

— Albert Camus

“STEPAN: Innocence? Yes, maybe I know what that means. But I prefer to shut my eyes to it—and to shut others’ eyes…

— Albert Camus

“And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration,…

— Albert Camus

“The hearing was adjourned. For a few brief moments, as I left the Law Courts on my way to the van, I…

— Albert Camus

“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire…

— Albert Camus

“And when one day Rambert told him that he liked waking up at four in the morning and thinking of his beloved…

— Albert Camus

“But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on…

— Albert Camus