I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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