The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

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.

To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it.

When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.