One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWords are loaded pistols.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
-
-
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Hell is – other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Existence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE