She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

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.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

I'm going on an adventure

Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing.

We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.