Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

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.

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.

If you're going to dream, why dream small?

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

It's an important fact of life, war.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!