"The specific character of despair is precisely this, that it is unaware of being despair."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"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…"

"What is terrible is not death, but the lives people live or don't live up to their death."

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."