"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."

"The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not."

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

"Man is always prey to his truths."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."