It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
-
-
We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
There 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 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 SARTRE -
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.
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 -
Do you think that I count the days? 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 -
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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 -
Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE






