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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Blog de Jean-Paul Sartre
Tagged: Existence, Weakness, humor, Daily Shouts, Albert Camus, jean paul sartre, simone de beauvoir
“What’s done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don’t talk about it.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Respectful Prostitute
Tagged: Night And Day, Night, things at night, daytime, Day and Night
“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Tagged: Existence
“The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
Tagged: Truth, Worst part, lying, Dishonesty
“On your face there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit & The Flies..First American Edition
Tagged: Passion, Poetic, Potential, Seeing goodness
“I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind in my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Tagged: Sleep, Sleeping, Sleeping Condition, desire to sleep, Problems, Healing, Nonsense
“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wall:(Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
Tagged: Woeds, Desire, Conscience
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The French Left: A History and Overview
Tagged: Words, Silence, Communication, consequences of actions
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, Fall in love, Loving Someone
“We do not judge the people we love.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Essays in Aesthetics
Tagged: Love, Loved Ones, Judge, judging loved ones, understanding loved ones
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Tagged: Alone, explanation, realization
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
Tagged: Beautiful, Good Times, Happy Memories, Good experience
“We are our choices.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Reality Game, second edition: A Guide to Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
Tagged: Choices, Personality, Characteristics, Definitions
“Don't turn away...Listen! I've dropped out of their heart 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 Sartre, No Exit
Tagged: Love, expressing of love, expressing of feelings, Confession of Love, Confession of Feelings
“You, who are so liberal and so humane, who have such an exaggerated adoration of culture that it verges on affectation, you pretend to forget that you own colonies and that in them men are massacred in your name.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Christian Thought, Catholic Guilt, Secularized Theology
“Will we recover? Yes. For violence, like Achilles’ lance, can heal the wounds that it has inflicted.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Fighting, Violence, Obama vs. Sartre
“Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Tagged: Thoughts, Words
“Our victims know us by their scars and by their chains, and it is this that makes their evidence irrefutable.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Violence, Colonization, Scars, Nightmare of History
“Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his humanity.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: The Aestheticization of Violence, Violence, Violence As The New
“To act is to modify the shape of the world.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre: To Freedom Condemned, A Guide to His Philosophy
Tagged: act, Action, Life, Living, Today, Choice, Choose, shape, World, influence
“It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and The Flies
Tagged: Sadness, Love, Loneliness
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Tagged: Life, Books, Reading, Learning, Book Lover, Book Worm
“You will have to fight, or rot in concentration camps.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Fighting, Violence
“I love you very much, my dear Beaver.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, And the Rest Is History: The Famous (and Infamous) First Meetings of the World's Most Passionate Couples
Tagged: Beautiful Last Words, Love, romance, Couples, Death
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
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