Death Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Death is a continuation of my life without me...

— Jean-Paul Sartre

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

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

“Undoubtedly, on his death bed, at that moment when, ever since Socrates, it has been proper to pronounce certain elevated words, he…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on;…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Something is beginning in order to end: adventure does not let itself be drawn out; it only makes sense when dead. I…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“And I— soft, weak, obscene, digesting, juggling with dismal thoughts— I, too, was In the way . Fortunately, I didn’t feel it,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles. Hugo: Men? Why should I love them? Do they love me? Höderer:…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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