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.

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

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

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.