Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

Helping people develop their own brilliance is much more effective than giving them yours

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we?

While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.