“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. — 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
I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death. — 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
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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image