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.
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 SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREShe believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE