Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
Jean-Paul SartreBefore 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.
Jean-Paul SartreShe suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.
Jean-Paul Sartre