“An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing - not even a memory.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“know very well that I don’t want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there’s quite enough existence as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I leaned back and closed my… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can’t imagine… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
