Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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.

It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.