The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.