It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!
None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.
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.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
It is useless work that darkens the heart.
