quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"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

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

""It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.""
— Jean-Paul Sartre (Being And Nothingness)

"Man is what he wills himself to be."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Better to die on ones feet than to live on ones knees."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life begins on the other side of despair "
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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— Jean-Paul Sartre

"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

""Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."

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— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Freedom is what we do with what is done to us."
— Jean-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 Sartre (Nausea (New Directions Paperbook))

"l'enfer, c'est les autres"
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit and Three Other Plays)

"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"We are Condemned to be free"
— Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness (Routledge Classics))

"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

"This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.
But you have to choose: live or tell."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics))

"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books"
— Jean-Paul Sartre