Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

It is up to you to give life a meaning.

L'enfer, c'est les autres. 

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

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

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity - it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

All human actions are equivalent . . . and . . . all are on principle doomed. . . .