A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

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.