Albert Camus Quotes

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

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

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Time is the devourer of all things.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Time stays, we go.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Time is death.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

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

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.