Life should be lived to the point of tears

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.