Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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 SARTRENothingness haunts Being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYour judgement judges you and defines you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFreedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMy eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE