» At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
» The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
» A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
» You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
» As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
» The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
» That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
» For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
» In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
» Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.