One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

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.

Love makes a happy life.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.