“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”

“This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.”

“The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”

“I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”