Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves "absent", that is more proper.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Las palabras se habían desvanecido, y con ellas la significación de las cosas, sus modos de empleo, las débiles marcas que los hombres han trazado en su superficie. Estaba sentado, un poco encorvado, cabizbajo, solo frente a aquella masa negra y nudosa, enteramente bruta y que me daba miedo. Y entonces tuve esa iluminación.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

...the prisoner's dreams is the guard's spirituality

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Var olmak susamadan içmek gibi bir şeydir.

But an adventure never returns nor is prolonged.

existence is a fullness which man can never abandon.

Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety,
moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?

If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

Roquentin wonders if he could do the same as the man who wrote the tune. Not in music, but in the realm of art. Not a history book, because that is about what has existed, and existence is pointless, is not necessary.

If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.