It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.