I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.