A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.