You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

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.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.