What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

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.

You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Music is sonorous air.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

Herbes... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.