Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

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

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I said to myself, I want to die decently.

Death is a continuation of my life without me...

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.

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

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.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Hell is—other people!

So this is hell. Id never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives tales! Theres no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

When the rich wage war its the poor who die.

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

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Better to die on ones feet than to live on ones knees.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

All I want is - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - to retain my freedom.I should myself have thought, said Jacques, that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all ones responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.