Albert Camus Quotes About Retirement

• Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Retirement, Mediocrity, Mediocre

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Albert Camus

  Teacher, Retirement, Book

• He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Retirement, Moving, Next Move

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

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