Jean-Paul Sartre on life
Jean-Paul Sartre101 quotes“Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
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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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