If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.

When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.

For instance, there is something new about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe orfork. Or else it's the fork which now has a certain way of having itself picked up, I don't know. A little while ago, just as I was coming into my room, I stopped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which held my attention through a sort of personality. I opened my hand, looked: I was simply holding the door-knob.

You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.

For us man is characterized above all by his going beyond a situation, and by what he succeeds in making of what he has been made -- even if he never recognizes himself in his objectification.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

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