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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am myself and I am here.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDo you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELike all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRESmooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE