Albert Camus Quotes About Time

• It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Art, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.74, Vintage

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Beauty, Time

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Time, Long

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.43, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Time, Want, Littles

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1946.

• If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Time, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.106, Vintage

• In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Knowing, People

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Police, Law Enforcement

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

• Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Style, Liberty

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