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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays QUOTES

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays QUOTES

1 " What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

2 " Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

3 " 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 , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

4 " Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

5 " What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

6 " The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

7 " A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

8 " A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

9 " There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

10 " Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

11 " Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

12 " Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

13 " There is scarcely any passion without struggle. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

14 " If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

15 " But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

16 " What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition? "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

17 " The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

18 " Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything? "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

19 " Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. "

― Albert Camus , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

20 " 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 , The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays