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
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
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus 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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.” — Albert Camus 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
