The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
-
-
Existence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
If 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 SARTRE -
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
People 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 SARTRE -
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-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 SARTRE -
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Nothingness haunts Being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE