# The Myth of Sisyphus
## Metadata
- Author: [[Albert Camus]]
- Full Title: The Myth of Sisyphus
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- THERE is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. ([Location 93](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=93))
- (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). ([Location 104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=104))
- 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. ([Location 125](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=125))
- The body’s judgment is as good as the mind’s, and the body shrinks from annihilation. ([Location 151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=151))
- One kills oneself because life is not worth living, that is certainly a truth—yet an unfruitful one because it is a truism. ([Location 159](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=159))
- Does the Absurd dictate death? ([Location 163](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=163))
- Men who die by their own hand consequently follow to its conclusion their emotional inclination. ([Location 166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=166))
- is there a logic to the point of death? ([Location 167](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=167))
- Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. ([Location 215](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=215))
- Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it. ([Location 221](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=221))
- you give me the choice between a description that is sure but that teaches me nothing and hypotheses that claim to teach me but that are not sure. ([Location 300](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=300))
- To will is to stir up paradoxes. ([Location 303](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=303))
- we shall deem a verdict absurd when we contrast it with the verdict the facts apparently dictated. ([Location 413](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=413))
- All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. ([Location 905](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=905))
- melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don’t know or they hope. ([Location 933](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=933))
- Of all kinds of fame the least deceptive is the one that is lived. ([Location 1030](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=1030))
- “A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. ([Location 1110](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=1110))
- This world has a higher meaning that transcends its worries, or nothing is true but those worries. ([Location 1129](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQZ3L&location=1129))