Best Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

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

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.

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.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

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

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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

Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.