Be that self which one truly is.
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
We are our choices.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
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.
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
Man’s existence precedes his essence.
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
We make our own hell out of the people around us.
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.