I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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.

Self confidence is the greatest courage for any success.

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

I need to breathe” I manage to get out, his hold on me loosens slightly.“I need you

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.