“This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories… — 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
It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“If... if I didn't try to get my life moving on my own account, I should think it just absurd to go… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other,… — 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
“what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But everything changes when you tell about life; it's a change no one notices: the proof is that people talk about true… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize… — 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