Top 28 Jean Paul Sartre Existentialism Quotes
#1. A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#2. Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3. The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.
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#4. [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
#5. They had forgotten their own names, the voices of their mothers, the faces of their fathers.
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#6. Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#7. Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#9. Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#10. With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#11. There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#13. 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
#15. People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#16. There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#17. I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#19. 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
#21. I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#22. You undo me, Saint."
"I'm sorry."
He sighed and rolled over so that he could pull me on top of his chest. "Just try and put me back together when you're done with me, all right?
Jay Crownover
#23. Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#24. 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
#25. I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#26. Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.
Vladimir Nabokov
#27. You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#28. I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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