"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."

"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."

"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."

"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."

"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."

"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 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."

"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."

"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think."

"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."

"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."

"Words are loaded pistols."

"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."

"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."

"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."

"Hell is other people."

"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."

"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."

"Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?"

"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."

"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."

"Existence precedes and rules essence."

"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."

"We do not judge the people we love."

"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."

"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."

"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."

"I confused things with their names: that is belief."

"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen."

"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"Acting is happy agony."

"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."