This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

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.

Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.

Nothing can stop you from achieving your goal-all true success depends on you- The thing always happens that you really believe in

Graveyards were the one place Belladonna never saw ghosts.

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!