I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

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.

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?

Don’t ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn’t want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

I divide my time badly.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

He thinks I look alike!

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.