Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it… — 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
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source… — 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
