Quote of Albert Camus - Beauty is unbearable, drives us to...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Quote

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

Translation

(French)

La beauté est insupportable. Elle nous désespère, éternité d'une minute que nous voudrions pourtant étirer tout le long du temps.”
Albert Camus

Quotes about beauty:

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius

beauty

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

What beauty is, I know not.”
Albrecht Dürer

beauty

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”
Charles Baudelaire

beauty

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
Charles Baudelaire

beauty

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Quotes about time:

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
Leonardo da Vinci

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon

Time is a great master; it regulates things well.”
Pierre Corneille - Sertorius

time

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

time

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

time

It takes a long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso

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Quotes about eternity:

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”
Arthur Rimbaud

Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.”
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Be humanity evermore our goal.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau

If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.”
Vladimir Jankélévitch - La Mort

Eternity is like a wheel, which has neither beginning nor end.”
Hildegard of Bingen

eternity

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Albert Camus also said...

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Albert Camus - The Plague

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.”
Albert Camus

Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”
Albert Camus

I revolt, therefore I am.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

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