“Your helpers are there to lighten the weight on your shoulders, and not to bear the burden of carrying your cross.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
“But the way an eloi has to darken her eyelashes every morning, cover her skin with colored cream, powder her nose and… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I shall leave you to your Sisyphean task." "What does that mean?" he heard Daisy ask. Lillian replied while her smiling gaze… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands… — Homer Copy Share Image
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image