Sartre Quotes

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a...

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibi...

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? P...

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them...

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing mor...

It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of th...

certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can sear...

I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its...

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than ...

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that qu...

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simpl...

Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and s...

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosoph...

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up ...

There can be no doubt that the chief fault we have developed, through the long course of human evolu...

Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.