Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

الآخرون هم الجحيم

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

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.

I do not think, therefore I am a moustache

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

Life is a useless passion.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

your judgement judges you and defines you