You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.