Existentialism Sartre Quotes

#1. Well, that's not true. I need to work for a living."

"No, that's not true. You think you need to work like this because that's what you've been told. That is merely an idea put into your head. In actuality, you can walk away any time you want.

Dylan Callens

#2. When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

Jerry Hall

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. (About Sartre ... )
His death does not separate us. My death will not bring us together again. That is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man ...

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'.

Iris Murdoch

#10. [E]very man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

Jean-Paul Sartre