Words matter. These are the best Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Acting is happy agony.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Words are loaded pistols.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Hell is other people.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
