All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is an imperfection.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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We are our choices.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Hell is – other people!
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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