"Suppose Sisyphus to have been acquitted his need of forever toiling up his hill in Hell, would he have made the last journey in joy? Or would mere fatigue have extinguished all other emotion, as a torch extinguished in a sconce?"

Avram Davidson Literature See all quotes by Avram Davidson →

React to this quote

More by Avram Davidson

““There may be someone here who knows less about all this than I do,” Clemens said, “but I can’t imagine who.”

“It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them...”

“Though you expel Nature with a pitchfork, she will always return.”

“Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock.”

“Hmm...hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.”

“It was a distinction without a difference.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I used to say that each season was a transatlantic submarine voyage: that you would load up the sub with all the supplies -- y'know, you-- we would do pre-production: we would come up with outlines an…"

— Jerry Seinfeld

Entertainment1954

#knowledge

"We've created a range of clothing which is almost like a prescription from the doctor. Our clothes do the same thing. If you're not happy with your bum, then there's a coat that's going to hide it. If…"

— Susannah Constantine

Literature1962

#happiness

"Almost every evening , either I went to Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's paintings. A canvas wasn't less…"

— Pablo Picasso

Art1881–1973

#art

"So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware of their true mission, would want to get on to abolish every politics aiming at expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among n…"

— African Spir

Philosophy1837–1890

#truth