Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe! — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb. — 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 possible and then, finally lost that three years ago. Just now, brusquely, as I was taking the letter from the landlady's hands, it came back to me; I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to… — 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 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. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a… — 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 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 I am terrified. It isn't that my life is rich, or weighty or precious. But I'm afraid of what will be born and take possession of me—and drag me—where? Shall I have to go off again,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share