What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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