People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Life 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.
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We are our choices.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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