God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

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.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem!

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.