Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone. No Exit and Three Other Plays

2. In love, one and one are one.

3. It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

4. Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. Existentialism is a Humanism

5. the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

6. A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

7. Ama bardağımın dibinde biram ılıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katışıksız acım, ayıbalığı gibi, hem bir yığın et hem gepgeniş bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi? Nausea

8. But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself. The Age of Reason

9. He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. The Age of Reason

10. 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.

11. I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. Existentialism and Human Emotions

12. If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing. The Age of Reason

13. Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.) Existentialism is a Humanism

14. In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

15. In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations. Existentialism is a Humanism

16. It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are. Being and Nothingness

17. One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

18. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Nausea