Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

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.

Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge.

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in India last summer, I was listening to a lot of Michael Bolton.

When it comes down to it, @Taskrabbit is about neighbors connecting with neighbors

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.