Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.

Suppose that I wish to deserve the title of "robber of remorse" and that I place in myself all [the townspeople's] repentence?

Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.

All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125 kilos. I would be very surprised if he didn't have a few pounds left.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

I felt less alone when I didn't know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.

Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

They are in bad faith — they are afraid — and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.