Human existence is composed of perpetual meaninglessness, futility, and absurdity. This emptiness of life's actions and endeavors poignantly reveals the absurd.

All human actions and thoughts develop in the void, in the midst of weariness and frustrations, irrelevancies, the bizarre, unconformities, illusions, and evasions, which make those actions and thoughts absurd. The human attempt to grasp the mechanism and the dynamics of the universe also turns into an absurd confrontation between the human being and his surroundings. Ironically, the human being can only realize the absurdity of the universe in his attempt to comprehend it.

The human being discovers the absurdity of existence when he correctly perceives the universe.

The human being encounters absurd walls that limit and trap him. Life always remains incomplete. This incompleteness of life makes it purposeless. In the routines and drills of life, the human being is drowned by the mundane and morbid repetition of living day in and day out. The human being is totally estranged from everything else in the universe. This estrangement expresses itself in the physiological nausea and the subjective passion to be free. He allows the flow of time, over which he has no control, to determine his life. Death appears as a seal in this unintelligible universe. Yet, he yearns for a distant tomorrow because he is unable to realize any value in his current mode of existence, in which everything has been reduced to mechanical functions that reproduce themselves.

The human being is a permanent exile and can never overcome his separation from the universe, not even from his own life, personal events, and society.

The absurdity of human existence lies in its insecurity, its rejections, its agony, and its disappointments.

Once one is conscious of the presence of the absurd, he is provided with a lucid way to absorb and understand the despair of the universe. Hence, it is the solitary ability to heroically face the universe that entitles the human being, in spite of the absurdity of existence, to embrace life, instead of committing suicide.

The absurdity of existence does not provide the human being with a predetermined set of values and beliefs; it compels him to come to terms with the wide array of possibilities, and the conflicting demands that life makes on him. The absurdity of the universe allows the human being to affirm his knowledge and to gain control of his destiny.

The human being, due to his self-realization and consciousness, does not stop his efforts because he faces an insurmountable challenge. Rather, his actions and thoughts, in the midst of limiting and engulfing human situation, show his heroism, defiance, and courage.