Associations to the word «Sisyphus»

Wiktionary

SISYPHUS, proper noun. Tragic figure in Greek mythology doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.

Dictionary definition

SISYPHUS, noun. (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin