He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

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.

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

If you want something from someone, you have to give that person something they want.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

All alone by the telephone.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.