Existentialism Quote by Iris Murdoch

“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’. Sartre”

— Sarah Bakewell

Generally, you kiss in a closed room but on a film set you have to do it in front of so many people.

— Jitendra Kumar

“Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove…

— Elena Ferrante

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

— Criss Jami

“[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what you like,…

— Robert C. Solomon

“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“To do is to be – Aristotle To be or not to be – Shakespeare To be is to do – Jean-Paul Sartre Do…

— Alannah Foley

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be…

— Zadie Smith

“The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns of word…

— Frank Kermode

“as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” What”

— Eula Biss

“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an…

— Roland Barthes

“Much of Sartre’s time in the 1960s was spent travelling in China and the Third World, a term invented by the geographer Alfred Sauvy…

— Paul Johnson