“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“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 (1905-1980)
“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“You are — your life, and nothing else.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“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.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.
(There is no reality except in action.)”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“Life is a useless passion.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"To choose not to choose is still to act."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Because we can imagine, we are free."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)