“That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“know very well that I don’t want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there’s quite enough existence as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“For instance, there is something new about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or fork. Or else it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. — 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
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
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,… — 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
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — 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
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.) — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first… — 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
“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?” — 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