Jean-Paul Sartre on tragedy
Jean-Paul Sartre101 quotes“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”
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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 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.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Nothingness haunts Being.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Such is the tragedy of the moon and sun; one sets the other rises perhaps you and i share the same destiny; one day the other night made to cross paths but never meet.
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Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie You will never love another the same way, again. And I’m still trying to figure out if that’s a blessing or a tragedy.
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