Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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As for us, my little friend, we entered the Communist Party because we were tired of dying of hunger.
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
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Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.
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If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.
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Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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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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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?Hugo: No.Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!
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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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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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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 is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man’s reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.
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For Genet, Beauty will be the offensive weapon that will enable him to beat the just on their own ground: that of value.