December 1, 2023
notes from The Myth of Sisyphus (not organized, just things i liked/found interesting)
Is life worth living? "What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying" (pg.4)
December 1, 2023
notes from The Myth of Sisyphus (not organized, just things i liked/found interesting)
Is life worth living? "What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying" (pg.4)
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"Killing yourself amounts to confessing. it is confessing that life is too much for you or that you dont understand it" "It is not worth the trouble." (pg.5)
"He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognized his worst enemy."
"Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, where as everything in him ought to reject it. That revolt of the flesh is the absurd."
"That denseness and that strangeness of the world is the absurd."
"Likewise the stranger who at a certain seconds comes to meet us in a mirror, the familiar yet alarming brother we encounter in our own photographs is also the absurd."
"In this ravaged world in which the impossibility of knowledge is established, in which everlasting nothingness seems the only reality and irremediable despair seems the only attitude."
"The world can no longer offer anything to the man filled with anguish."