Jean-Paul Sartre on leaving
Jean-Paul Sartre101 quotes“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre One 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 SartreJean-Paul Sartre Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Life is a useless passion.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre 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.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn’t call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.
Louie GiglioLouie Giglio And as I gave up the fight to leave the forever in my heart behind, I made friends within the hellfire beast that will always burn a little too close whilst you remain out of reach.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce In leaving me you turned of the future into a creature of the past.
Buried CaesarBuried Caesar Each time I fall back in love with myself, I leave my pen and paper behind. It isn’t personal, or maybe it is. I just a always thought that poetry was for the hurting.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc Live the life you want to, do not leave it too late.
Frank ZFrank Z Thankyou for showing me not everything with love will leave.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.
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