Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

Le vieillard: Maintenant... vous voyez aussi les morts.
Pierre: Comment les distingue-t-on des vivants?
Le vieillard: C'est bien simple: les vivants, eux, sonts toujours pressés.

That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.

But you looked much more like a fellow who had just realised that he has been living on ideas that don’t pay.

L'existence précède et commande l'essence.

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's
a second nature with me — and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

Zaten sözcüklerden gayrı ne var ki...

You are — your life, and nothing else.

He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.

Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster

القيم الأخلاقية غامضة غير محددة، وهى تمتد إلى ما لا نهاية.

My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?