A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Communism is the flower of idleness.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.