Camus

"In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between the man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity ... there is a direct connection between this feeling and the longing for death."

-- Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"