I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

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.

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.

One must not trifle with love

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Don't just get through the day, get FROM the day

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

When you say "paying the banks," what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.

They import and they consume reality.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.