Albert Camus Quotes

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Time stays, we go.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Time is long but life is short.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

It's true that the biggest value of life is that it's going to stop. I was thinking when I was in New York the last time that all that we see that has importance is man-made. It isn't nature-made. And when I was looking through the window, looking at New York, I was so moved by humanity's desire for immortality-because that's what it is.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

My bits of time play with eternity.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

I've been thinking about forever