Time Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity...

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“So I was a poodle of the future; I made prophecies.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past:…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

“Where shall I keep mine? You don’t put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The rain has stopped, the air is mild, the sky slowly rolls up fine black images : it is more than enough…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I live in the past. I take everything that has happened to me and arrange it. From a distance like that, it…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I see the future. It is there, poised over the street, hardly more dim than the present. What advantage will accrue from…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

“This feeling of adventure definitely does not come from events: I have proved it. It's rather the way in which the moments…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

— Jean-Paul Sartre