Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

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.

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

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.