From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming… — 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
“You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely… — 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
“General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face ... People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The Nausea has not left me and I don't believe it will leave me so soon; but I no longer have to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Farewell, beautiful lilies, elegant in your painted little sanctuaries, good-bye, lovely lilies, our pride and reason for existing, good-bye you bastards!” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure:… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst:… — 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
“The Nausea is not inside me: I feel it out there in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. It makes… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Something has happened to me, I can't doubt it any more. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is an abstract change without object. Am I the one who has changed? (...) I must finally realize that I am… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go.… — 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
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I lean all my weight on the porcelain ledge, I draw my face closer until it touches the mirror. The eyes, nose,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they… — 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
“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
[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
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“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
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
