Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.