Life is a senseless evil, that is certain, said I to myself. Yet I have lived and am still living, and all mankind lived and lives. Ignorance behaves just in that way. Ignorance always says just what I am saying. When it does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide.
You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. For our wisdom, however indubitable it may be, has not given us the knowledge of the meaning of our life. Indeed, from the most distant time of which I know anything, when life began, people have lived knowing the argument about the vanity of life which has shown me its senselessness, and yet they lived attributing some meaning to it. From the time when any life began among men they had that meaning of life, and they led that life which has descended to me. All that is in me and around me, all, corporeal and incorporeal, is the fruit of their knowledge of life.