In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
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...
Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable?...Ah,I see; it's life without a break.
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
The essential thing is contingency. I mean that one cannot define existence as necessity. To exist is simply to be there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anythi...
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then t...
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...
Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
Emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
Seuls les actes décident de ce qu'on a voulu.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism.
I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I do...
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.