"What the philosophers say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads 'Pressing Done Here.' If you were to take your clothes to be pressed, you would be foo…"

"Despair is the sickness unto death."

"What is the Absurd? It is, as may quite easily be seen, that I, a rational being, must act in a case where my reason, my powers of reflection, tell me: you can just as well do the one thing as the oth…"

"The true lover is the one who loves the beloved for what he is, not for what he has."

"The most tremendous energy of which the world is capable is the spiritual energy of a man who is in despair."