Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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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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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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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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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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The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance
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such mad confidence within despair.
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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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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Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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'This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man.'
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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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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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Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
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I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.