Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes: 32

• If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

• Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

• I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

  No Exit

• Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

• You are -- your life, and nothing else.

  No Exit

• Life begins on the other side of despair.

• Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

• In love, one and one are one.

• 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.

• It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

  Being and Nothingness

• Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)

  Existentialism Is a Humanism

• She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

  The Age of Reason

• That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

• There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

• Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

• I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

  The Words

• In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

  Existentialism Is a Humanism

• the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

• I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

  No Exit

• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

• I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

  The Wall

• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

• All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

• Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

• He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

  The Age of Reason

• A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

• But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!"He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.

  The Age of Reason

• Ama bardağımın dibinde biram ılıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katışıksız acım, ayıbalığı gibi, hem bir yığın et hem gepgeniş bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?

  Nausea

• I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

  Existentialism and Human Emotions

• Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

  Existentialism and Human Emotions

• [E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

  Existentialism and Human Emotions