L'existentialiste, au contraire, pense qu'il est très gênant que Dieu n'existe pas, car avec lui disparaît toute possibilité de trouver des valeurs dans un ciel intelligible; il ne peut plus y avoir d...
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Something has happened to me, I can't doubt it any more. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like anything evident. It came cunningly, little by little; I felt a little str...
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, h...
I had spent my timecounterfeiting eternity.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Hell is—other people!
He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.
But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must le...
Man is free rather than man is freedom.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it.