You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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 disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFreedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREGenius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE