For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

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.

Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!

Never floss with a stranger.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.