Absurd Quote by Albert Camus

“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an unhealthy workshop,…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you…

— Andy Warhol

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we…

— Alexandre Dumas

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.…

— Walter Lippmann

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

— John Milton

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald

All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do…

— Jean Gebser

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

— Alice Cary

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

— Kobo Abe