When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.