Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

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.

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.