Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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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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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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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
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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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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
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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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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.
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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.
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I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
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Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.