“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”

“A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?”

“I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.”

“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.”

“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

“...which we welcomed precisely because it happened to suit our convenience.”