"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed."

"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…"

"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wants me to do."

"The most dreadful thing that can happen to a man is to become a number."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."