Existence is prior to essence.

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.

Destiny is manifested only through action.

A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.

[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.