In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

Existence is prior to essence.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.