Camus holds that the universe remains fundamentally silent on purpose or meaning, requiring humans to bear an irresolvable emptiness rather than solve a cognitive mystery.

Evidence

Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
XREF: connects to: Life is full of unfathomable mysteries that elude understanding. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 374; For Picard, silence is not an absence of sound or a void, but has substance and its own reality — silence has Being. — Max Picard’s Silence; To Picard the theologian, silence is the context of consciousness while language is the expression of creation. — Picard, Max: World of Silence - Book Reviews