“My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood. — 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
“a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I want no secrets or soul-states, nothing ineffable; I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never… — 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
“I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.… — 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
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — 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
“what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is a profound boredom, profound, the profound heart of existence, the very matter I am made of.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else… — 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
“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
“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
