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Preface

'The fundamental subject of "The Myth of Sisyphus" is this: it is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning; therefore it is legitimate to meet the problem of suicide face to face. The answer, underlying and appearing through the paradoxes which cover it, is this: even if one does not believe in God, suicide is not legitimate.'

The Myth of Sisyphus

'There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.'
'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).'
'Beginning to think [about suicide] is beginning to be undermined.'
'In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.'
'You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit. Dying voluntarily implies that you have recognized, even instinctively, the ridiculous character of that habit, the absence of any profound reason for living, the insane character of that daily agitation, and the uselessness of suffering.'
'The subject of this essay is precisely this relationship between the absurd and suicide, the exact degree to which suicide is a solution to the absurd.'
'But it is wrongly assumed that simple questions involve answers that are no less simple and that evidence implies evidence.'
'In a man's attachment to life there is something stronger than all the ills in the world.'
'We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.'
'Thus everything contributes to spreading confusion.'
'Does the Absurd dictate death?'

'Like many great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.'
'A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.'