Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is other people.
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.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
