Quotes About Choice

Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.

I am free,' he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Que me den algo que hacer, lo que sea! Sería preferible que pensara en otra cosa, porque en este momento estoy por representarme la comedia. Sé muy bien que no quiero hacer nada; hacer algo es crear existencia, y ya hay bastante existencia.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.

She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free.

Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.

freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

Voici ce que j'ai pensé : pour que l'événement le plus banal devienne une aventure, il faut et il suffit qu'on se mette à la raconter. C'est ce qui dupe les gens : un homme, c'est toujours un conteur d'histoires, il vit entouré de ses histoires et des histoires d'autrui, il voit tout ce qui lui arrive à travers elles ; et il cherche à vivre sa vie comme s'il la racontait. Mais il faut choisir : vivre ou raconter.

what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.

This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.

Das Leben hat a priori keinen Sinn. Ehe Sie leben, ist das Leben nichts; es liegt bei Ihnen, ihm einen Sinn zu verleihen, und der Wert ist nichts anderes als der Sinn, den Sie wählen.

Never were we freer than under the German Occupation.

This is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free: condemned, because he did not create himself, yet nonetheless free, because once cast into the world, he is responsible for everything that he does.

Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.

Je n'ai pas rêvé cet héroïsme. Je l'ai choisi. On est ce qu'on veut.

Din clipa în care libertatea a f?cut explozie în sufletul unui om, zeii nu mai pot face nimic împotriva lui. Asta-i o treab? omeneasc?, ÅŸi numai ceilalÅ£i oameni - numai ei - au c?derea s?-l lase în libertate sau s?-l strîngâ de gît.

The Other is the hidden death of my possibilities.

In choosing myself, I choose man.