Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

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.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.