Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life.
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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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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.
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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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I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
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Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
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I felt less alone when I didn’t know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.
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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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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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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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For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.
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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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We are in hell and I will have my turn!
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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the martyr’s reflex