“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

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.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Life is a useless passion.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

I was once told that I could speak any dream into existence and I haven’t been able to shut up ever since.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.

The truth is, I have always felt a little off-balance. Maybe each part of me exists in a  separate world.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.