Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?
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His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking.
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…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
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Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.
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Alors, c’est ça l’enfer. Je n'aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril... ah! Quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril, l'enfer, c'est les autres.
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I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.
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His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the beloved’s orders. But, on the other hand, it is imaginary because he submits only to a creature of his mind.
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The French bourgeois doesn’t dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.
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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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We are in hell and I will have my turn!