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“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“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
“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is only in our decisions that we are important.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Acting is happy agony.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
