Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.