Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

Words are loaded pistols.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

To choose not to choose is still to act.

In love, one and one are one.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

We do not judge the people we love.

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to peaceful nonexistence?

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.