Famous quotes containing the words king and/or sisyphus:
“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)