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Sisyphus Quotes

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Albert Camus
Joy, Liberty, Sisyphus
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

Albert Camus
World, Impossible, Sisyphus
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.51, Vintage

None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.

Joko Beck
Sisyphus
"Nothing Special". Book by Charlotte J. Beck, ‎Steven A. Smith, 2009.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle
Men, Desire, Sisyphus
Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Albert Camus
Regret, Significant, Myth Of Sisyphus
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.18, Vintage

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

Albert Camus
Thinking, Consciousness, Sisyphus
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Albert Camus
Feelings, Splendid, Sisyphus
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus
Stranger, Sisyphus
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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