Jean-Paul Sartre on leaving
Jean-Paul Sartre101 quotes“A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.”
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People 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 SartreJean-Paul Sartre What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre 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 SartreJean-Paul Sartre There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-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 SartreJean-Paul Sartre I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Words are loaded pistols.
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell When you don’t show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you’re not. Then when they find out who you are, that’s when they leave.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.
TygaTyga Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck I never lacked respect to the fans and I think every player should be allowed to stay or leave a club. You are not obligated to remain at a club, if you wish to leave then the player has that right.
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