He thought that most philosophical questions do not concern actual life or death. Camus took suicide very seriously and he actually thought that it poses a serious philosophical problem. Camus is arguing that, given that there is no God, and there is no for immortality or life after death, we need to accept that we are sentenced to a finite amount of time on earth and then we need just to squeeze out as much as life as we can. During the trouble times after WWII people were searching for meaning in life and Camus went deep into that quest with fiction books like "The Stranger" and non-fiction books like "The Myth of Sisyphus" Camus starts the book with a quote from Pindar O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limit of the possible". Whether the satisfaction and happiness we must imagine Sisyphus possessing, makes his life meaning is an open question. To do that it will then move on to look at how Camus draws a distinction between 'revolution' and 'revolt and, finally, it will come to the conclusion that happiness ultimately comes from accepting our limits and in the face of accepting those limits striving to be what we can be. This paper will discuss Camus' 'The Myth of Sisyphus', it will begin by looking generally at the idea of the suicide, before focusing more specifically on Camus' own interpretation of the absurd.
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