"Rabbit at Rest" Quotes
An aging Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom grapples with declining health, family turmoil, and the changing American landscape during his retirement in Florida.
fiction | 608 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself.
What is absurd is the confrontation between the sense of the irrational and the overwhelming nostalgia for clarity.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
The only really serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
The most difficult thing is to learn to live on this earth.
