Quotes About The Myth Of Sisyphus

#1. One of the century's most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: 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.

William Styron

#2. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Gautama Buddha

#3. I sit down on the toilet and think back on my day as I take care of business. My stomach continues to express its discontent as I wander through my memories. I'm really glad it's just Ian and me here in the house. I'm making a lot of noise in this little room. Wow.

Elle Casey

#4. Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.

Lev Grossman

#5. The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ.

Gloria Furman

#6. Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

Betsy McCaughey

#7. Uplifting of the Germans came at a price, and that price was the elimination of the Jews. The

Raymond Jennings

#8. Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

Karen Joy Fowler

#9. In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Albert Camus

#11. How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?

Albert Camus

#12. What's the problem?"
"You. All shirtless and stuff. My dragon won't let me fight you." Oh, God. It was so embarrassing even admitting it.

Katie Reus

#13. Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Albert Camus

#14. What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Albert Camus

#15. I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.

Sara Shepard

#16. The loves we share with a city are often secret loves.

Albert Camus

#17. I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.

Jackee Harry

#18. If it were sufficent to love, things would be too easy.

Albert Camus