The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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