The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Lewis Carroll

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence Nightingale

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
Phyllis Diller

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Albert Schweitzer

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.
Emo Philips

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tupac Shakur

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
Paul McCartney

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney

Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
Jay Leno