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
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — 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
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
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the… — 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
“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I… — 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
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
“I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing? Hugo: No. Karsky: It is very… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“One thus arrives at a curious conception of thought. Thought has no real, concrete existence, accessible to immediate consciousness, since the datum… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“all of us abandon ourselves to existence, because we were among ourselves, only among ourselves, it has taken us unawares, in the… — 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
But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that… — 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
On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“M. de Rollebon was my partner; he needed me in order to exist and I needed him so as not to feel… — 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
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable?...Ah,I see; it's life without a break.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If... if I didn't try to get my life moving on my own account, I should think it just absurd to go… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — 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
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at… — 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
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — 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
“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
![“But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law…” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1aa/jean-paul-sartre-220_behind-you_but-your-crime-will-be-there-one-hundred_2620706.jpg)
![“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/50a/jean-paul-sartre-220_condemned_man-is-condemned-to-be-free-because-once_482658.png)
![“[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that…” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fc4/jean-paul-sartre-220_absolute_lost-of-the-absolute-is-in-this-sense-th_2116221.jpg)
