“The Myth of Sisyphus” is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus.
It delves into the idea of the absurd, which refers to the basic contradiction between what we seek from the universe and what we find in it.
I have selected the best quotes from The Myth of Sisyphus book for you.
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The Myth of Sisyphus Quotes by Albert Camus
“As in all religions, man is freed of the weight of his own life.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“There are truths but no truth.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“Likewise the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“Creation is the great mime.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart. The most destitute men often end up by accepting illusion.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility is that the latter thrives on moral problems and the former on metaphysical problems.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
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Quotes from The Myth of Sisyphus
“Although “The Myth of Sisyphus” poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“The mind’s deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man’s unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity. Understanding the world for a man is reducing it to the human, stamping it with his seal.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us toward death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“If man realized that the universe like him can love and suffer, he would be reconciled.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
Best Myth of Sisyphus Quotes
“They deify what crushes them and find reason to hope in what impoverishes them.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“One must live with time and die with it, or else elude it for a greater life.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“There are those who are made for living and those who are made for loving.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn’t feel it.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
Famous Myth of Sisyphus Quotes by Albert Camus
“If it were sufficient to love, things would be too easy. The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“I want everything to be explained to me or nothing. And the reason is impotent when it hears this cry from the heart. The mind aroused by this insistence seeks and finds nothing but contradictions and nonsense.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“For the existentials negation is their God.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
“You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.” ~ Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus).
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