Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

I am myself and I am here.

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Aunque me quisiera con toda su alma, sería igualmente un amor de muerta.

"GARCIN: This bronze. Yes, now's the moment; I'm looking at this thing on the mantelpiece, and I understand that I'm in hell. I tell you, everything's been thoughtout beforehand. They knew I'd stand at the fireplace stroking this thing of bronze, with all those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS-OTHER PEOPLE!"

An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

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

How far away from them I feel, up on this hill. It seems to me that I belong to another species.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

And naturally, everything they tell about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It is to this way of happening
that I clung so tightly.

I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

And you know what wickedness is, and shame, and fear. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror.

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

On est ce qu'on veut.