Jean-Paul Sartre quotes Born: 06/21/1905 Died: 04/15/1980 Country: france

• It is only in our decisions that we are important. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Life begins on the other side of despair. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [life]
• Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Hell is other people. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [people]
• To eat is to appropriate by destruction. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [destruction]
• 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. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [generosity/give/give/give]
• Man is a useless passion. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [pleasure]
• Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [being/being/being]
• If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [bad/company]
• Everything has been figured out, except how to live. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [thing/weakness/chance]
• We must act out passion before we can feel it. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [pleasure]
• When the rich wage war it is the poor who die. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [war]
• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Words are loaded pistols. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [words]
• I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [responsibility/being/find/help]
• I hate victims who respect their executioners. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [respect]
• Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [human]
• Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [defeat]
• Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Acting is happy agony (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• 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. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Existence precedes and rules essence. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

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