Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

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.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.

Any religion whose messiah’s name isn’t recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.