After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.