The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!