Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

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.

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

Our thoughts and emotions strain our life force, drain our energy, carrying us away, cutting us from the people we are with and the beauty of places we are in.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

I don't know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don't think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.