Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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

“Freedom is what you do with whats been done to you.”

“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough”

“Hell is other people.”

“We do not judge the people we love”

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

“One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet ones whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.”

“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget”

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact”

“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.”

“Three oclock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices”

“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.”

“Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.”

“Existence precedes and rules essence.”

“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives ones death, one dies ones life.”

“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

“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.”