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
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but… — 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 without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing - not even a memory.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I want no secrets or soul-states, nothing ineffable; I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the… — 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
“Do you regret those days?' 'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all… — 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
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, othermen going to their jobs.… — 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
If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you… — 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
“a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“We were a heap of living creatures, irritated, embarrassed at ourselves, we hadn't the slightest reason to be there, none of us,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — 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
“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