Top 100 Paul Sartre Quotes
#1. Idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Eula Biss
#2. I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Thom Gunn
#3. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.
Adam Alter
#4. Hell is other people," said Jean-Paul Sartre. "Hell is other real people,' is what he should have said.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.
Evgeny Morozov
#6. 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
#7. Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda
#8. Some 1,300 years later, the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre metaphorically spat on the notion of communal bliss by declaring, "Hell is other people.
Eric Weiner
#10. As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women?
Richard Yates
#11. Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends
Cheryl Strayed
#12. Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What
Eula Biss
#14. I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too 'Jean-Paul Sartre' and intellectual in my head. And it's like a Kafka novel in there, things get nuts. Then I have to remind myself to get out and I will go and play ice hockey with my friends.
Josh Peck
#15. This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.)
Christopher Panza
#16. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Lewis Hyde
#17. It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
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#18. Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote, "Evil is not an appearance," adding that "knowing its causes does not dispel it." Sartre
Sue Klebold
#19. One can be very fertile without having to work too much. Three hours in the morning. Three hours in the evening. This is my only rule. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Mason Currey
#22. Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.
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#23. So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.
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#24. Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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#25. To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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#26. Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.
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#27. Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.
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#29. At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.
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#30. The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness.
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#31. I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can't imagine any more of them.
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#32. I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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#33. Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
toward himself to recover his inner being.
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#34. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
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#36. People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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#37. I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.
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#38. I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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#39. And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.
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#41. Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?
Hugo: No.
Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.
Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.
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#42. Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
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#44. Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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#45. I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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#46. The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom
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#48. If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
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#49. The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him.
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#50. You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself - in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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#51. There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.
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#52. It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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#53. Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him.
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#55. I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.
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#57. One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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#58. Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free.
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#60. Nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville.
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#63. No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.
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#64. I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself.
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#65. So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
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#66. I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . . . But my place is nowhere; I am unwanted, de trop. The
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#69. I scraped my heel against this black claw: I wanted to peel off some of the bark. For no reason at all, out of defiance, to make the bare pink appear absurd on the tanned leather: to play with the absurdity of the world. But, when I drew my heel back, I saw that the bark was still black.
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#70. All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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#71. We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention ... We can only love on this earth and against God.
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#72. 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.
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#73. I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.
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#74. I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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#75. One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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#76. You take souls for vegetables ... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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#77. Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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#78. 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.
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#79. It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
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#80. That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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#81. M. de Rollebon was my partner; he needed me in order to exist and I needed him so as not to feel my existence.
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#83. When she was in Djibouti and I was in Aden, and I used to go and see her for twenty-four hours, she managed to multiply the misunderstandings between us until there were exactly sixty minutes before I had to leave; sixty minutes, just long enough to make you feel the seconds passing one by one.
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#84. The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
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#85. She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
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#88. You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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#89. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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#90. Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
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#91. I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.
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#93. You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.
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#94. Many people are walking along the shore, turning poetic springtime faces towards the sea; they're having a holiday because of the sun. [ ... ] The true sea is cold and black, full of animals; it crawls under this thin green film made to deceive human beings.
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#95. Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift ... that's nausea.
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#96. Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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#97. what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.
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#98. On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.
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#99. Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.
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