The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. — Simone de Beauvoir
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. — Alan Watts
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. — Vaclav Havel
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. — Vladimir Nabokov
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. — Phil Ochs
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. — Albert Camus
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. — Emile M. Cioran
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy. — Le Corbusier
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — Albert Camus
Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms — Rabindranath Tagore
Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way. — Thomas Wolfe
Sisyphus Quotes
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. — Albert Camus
There is scarcely any passion without struggle. — Albert Camus
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman. — Albert Camus
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. — Albert Camus
If the world were clear, art would not exist. — Albert Camus
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. — Albert Camus
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus
Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling.
[Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.] — Ovid
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. — Albert Camus
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. — Albert Camus
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future. — Albert Camus
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. — Albert Camus
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them. — Albert Camus
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. — Albert Camus
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? — Albert Camus
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up. — Albert Camus
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. — Albert Camus
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. — Albert Camus
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. — Albert Camus
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. — Albert Camus
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. — Albert Camus
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. — Albert Camus
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules — Albert Camus
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light. — Albert Camus
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. — Albert Camus
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again. — Philip French
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