We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWords are loaded pistols.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Existence 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.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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