When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

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