Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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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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The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.
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They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, would have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: 'Give me bread'.
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I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that’s what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse!
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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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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
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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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Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me.Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is nothing either one of us can do about it.
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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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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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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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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
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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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As for us, my little friend, we entered the Communist Party because we were tired of dying of hunger.
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Nothingness haunts being.
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The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it
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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
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…the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality
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But when they have realized that it society rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors