“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
“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life,… — 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
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing… — 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
“An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“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