Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”

“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth”

“I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence”

“If you are lonely when youre alone, you are in bad company”

“Words are loaded pistols”

“When the rich make war its the poor that die”

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live”

“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”

“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”

“If literature isnt everything, its not worth a single hour of someones trouble.”

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”

“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”

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

“Only the guy who isnt rowing has time to rock the boat.”

“Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass ittoward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippledwithout choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (asunbearable, humiliating, to be hidden, to be revealed to all).”

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which Im still waiting, its all been to seduce women basically”

“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

“Sometimes the less treaded way is less treaded for very good reasons.”

“Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose”

In love, one and one are one.