Life begins on the other side of despair.
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.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good co...
The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact,...
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Her eyes stare at me but she seems not to see me; she looks as though she were lost in her suffering.
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical e...
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, w...
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism.
Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and m...
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.