“In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.”

“Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.”