Top 15 Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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.

Hell is — other people!

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.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

We are our choices.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

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.

You are — your life, and nothing else.