Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRESmooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREShe believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBeing is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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 SARTREIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
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 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 SARTREIf you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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 SARTREFor an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE