Existence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
-
-
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
Life is a useless passion.
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 -
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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 -
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE