That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIn football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRESmooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAs for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am myself and I am here.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFor an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE