I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

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.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.