Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Liberty is dangerous.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

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.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.